'No trace' of E.coli at bean sprout farm suspected as German source

Health authorities were still struggling to find a source for Germany's E.coli outbreak yesterday after investigators failed to discover traces of the bacteria at a bean sprout farm strongly suspected of growing contaminated vegetables.Health inspectors in the northern state of Lower Saxony shut down the farm in the village of Bienenbü ttel south of Hamburg on Sunday after two of its workers contracted diarrhoea and one of them became infected with...

Severity of European E. coli outbreak stuns the experts

The foodborne bacterial outbreak that has hit Germany and other European nations is unlike anything Western experts have seen: 16 dead and more than 1,000 sick, including nearly 400 suffering severe and potentially fatal symptoms. But several days into the health threat, scientists remain unsure what produce — and what country — is responsible.Investigators across Europe were frantically trying to determine the scope of the contamination by an unusual...