One day, when the woman was not present to throw garbage out her window, the Prophet inquired about her whereabouts and visited her inside her home when he found that she had fallen sick.

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More than two weeks after a food poisoning epidemic broke out in northern Germany, at least 14 people have been reported dead and hundreds have fallen sick from an extremely dangerous strain of the E. coli bacteria found on imported cucumbers.

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The number who are economically inactive because they are "long-term sick" has fallen 101, 000 in the past year.

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In winter of course healthy and sick ash trees are difficult to tell apart as the leaves will all have fallen to the ground.

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