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A nurse cares for a patient infected with the virulent E. coli bacteria and undergoing dialysis treatment at an intensive care unit of Hamburg's UKE university clinic on June 1, 2011.
Friday, Jun. 03, 2011

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  • DR. PHILLIP TARR,
  • a microbiology professor at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, on a lethal strain of E. coli bacteria that has killed at least 16 people in Germany and has infected more than 1,500; the source of the outbreak remains unknown
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