Last fall, one child died and more than 60 people in the Western United States and Canada became sick after drinking unpasteurized Odwalla apple juice that was contaminated with the E. coli bacteria.

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We eat the wrong stuff, drink too much, and merrily watch TV on the couch, until we get sick, and then we go to the doctor (or too often the E-room) to get fixed.

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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 university sent e-mails to faculty members asking them to create contingency plans so that sick students are not required to go to class, and to commuter students and their parents warning them that the students may have to be isolated if they fall ill.

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