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By Stephanie Armour
A Bloomberg.com Exclusive
In early May 2009, Abby Fenstermaker visited her grandfather at a Cleveland rehabilitation center where he was being cared for because of an E. coli infection. He’d eaten tainted beef about three weeks earlier at a veteran’s hall, the Ohio Department of Health determined. While Abby’s mother, Nicole, plugged in a small television she’d brought to his room, the 7-year-old girl brushed her grandfather’s cheek with a soft kiss.
That kiss and other physical contact likely transferred E. coli from 72-year-old John Strike to his granddaughter, says Craig Hedberg, a professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, who reviewed the case for the family. The CDC says E. coli can be spread by touching an ill person who hasn’t washed properly, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its November issue.
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By Stephanie Armour
A Bloomberg.com Exclusive
In early May 2009, Abby Fenstermaker visited her grandfather at a Cleveland rehabilitation center where he was being cared for because of an E. coli infection. He’d eaten tainted beef about three weeks earlier at a veteran’s hall, the Ohio Department of Health determined. While Abby’s mother, Nicole, plugged in a small television she’d brought to his room, the 7-year-old girl brushed her grandfather’s cheek with a soft kiss.
That kiss and other physical contact likely transferred E. coli from 72-year-old John Strike to his granddaughter, says Craig Hedberg, a professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, who reviewed the case for the family. The CDC says E. coli can be spread by touching an ill person who hasn’t washed properly, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its November issue.
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