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Lynn Kane posted an update in the group Diseases Spread by Humans, Animals and Insects 5 years, 12 months ago
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a Food Safety Alert regarding eating and storing romaine lettuce. Check it out here:
https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-11-18/index.html
Patients and clinicians should know to send stool culture on anyone with bloody diarrhea (a sign of possible E coli infection), and not to reflexively treat with antibiotics, because it can increase the risk of having kidney damage.