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Seven-year-old dies from eating E. coli-tainted beef

22-May-2009

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A seven-year-old Cleveland girl has died from an E. coli infection that health officials say could be linked to contaminated ground beef from an Illinois-based meatpacker.

Valley Meats recalled 96,000 pounds of beef products after an epidemiological study of illnesses suggested the firm’s meat to be a possible source.

The US Department of Agriculture has called it a ‘Class 1’ recall, which designates “a health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death.”

So far three other illnesses have been linked to the E. coli strain: A three-year-old girl, a 24-year-old man and a 71-year-old man.

A full list of recalled products can be found here .

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