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DENVER (Reuters) - Two people in Colorado have died in the last month in a listeria outbreak following a puzzling surge in cases of gastrointestinal infection caused by the food-borne bacteria, state public health officials said. Alicia Cronquist, a state epidemiologist, said nine people in...

(CNN) -- A deadly bacterial outbreak that has killed at least 23 people in Europe is limited to an area around the German city of Hamburg and does not require Europe-wide controls, a top European Union official said Tuesday. "There is no reason as of today to take ... measures at (the) European...

LONDON – An expert at the World Health Organization says time is running out for German investigators to find the source of the world's deadliest E. coli outbreak, which has spread fear across Europe and cost farmers millions in exports. German officials are still seeking the cause of the...

Berlin (CNN) -- Sprouts grown in Germany are the likely source for an E. coli outbreak that has killed 22 people, officials said Sunday. Gert Lindemann, agricultural minister of Lower Saxony, said there is a "direct link" between a company in the town of Bienenbuettel and "these people getting...

(CNN) -- An outbreak of a virulent strain of E. coli has killed 19 people in Europe and infected more than 2,000 in at least 12 countries, the World Health Organization said on Saturday. All but one of the fatalities were reported in Germany, where officials say it's still too early to...

(CNN) -- Despite complaints from Europeans, Russia will keep intact its ban on vegetables from the European Union because of the outbreak of a rare strain of E. coli, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Friday. The European Union has told Russia that the ban contradicts the spirit of the...

-- About 134,000 South military personnel are involved in efforts to contain the country's worst ever foot-and-mouth outbreak, the agriculture ministry said Thursday. Authorities have killed more than 2 million animals, and fear the epidemic could cost the country $1.4 billion, the ministry...

Coffin-makers line the streets of Cap-Haitien, going about their grim business. In the midst of an ongoing cholera outbreak, their occupation is one of the fastest-growing in Haiti. JOHNNYCOLT interviewed a coffin maker in Cap Haitien last week as he saw so many building coffins for the...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2010/10/25/ac.sean.penn.haiti.cnn Port-Au-Prince, Haiti -- Calling Haiti's cholera outbreak "an extremely serious situation," a United Nations official expressed concern Monday that the infectious disease that has already killed more than 250 people could...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/10/24/cholera.haiti.outbreak.cnn Saint-Marc, Haiti -- Patients arrive at the front gates of St. Nicholas Hospital hunched over and groaning, only to be greeted by chaos and confusion. Getting inside isn't easy, but once in, aid organizations and local...

Haitian Health Ministry officials have informed the World Health Organization that 138 deaths are a part of a fast-moving cholera outbreak north of Port-au-Prince, a U.N. official said. Imogen Wall, the U.N. humanitarian spokeswoman in Haiti, said that in addition to the deaths, 1,526 cases are...

Legionnaires outbreak points to Fla. hotel MIAMI, -- A faulty water system at a Miami luxury hotel probably caused an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease that killed an English tourist last year, officials said. Bacteria that causes the respiratory disease was detected in water samples at...

OTTAWA – Canada will upgrade its food safety system and hire more inspectors in the wake of a listeriosis outbreak in 2008 in which 22 people died, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said on Friday. Ottawa will spend C$75 million ($69 million) on implementing all 57 recommendations made in a July...