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Is 2nd Death to Blame on Tainted Meat?
ABCNews -- Two died and 26 others became ill after apparently eating ground beef that might have been contaminated with E. coli bacteria, The Associated Press reported. A spokeswoman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the AP that one person who died, an adult from New York, had several underlying health conditions. The other previously reported death was in New Hampshire. Health officials said Saturday the products were packaged between Sept. 15-16 and may have been labeled with sell-by dates from Sept. 19-28, according to The Associated Press. The contaminated meat may be related to the recall of almost 546,000 pounds of ground beef in Connecticut, Maine and Massachusetts. That meat was sold by Fairbank Farms in Ashville, N.Y....
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11.24.09 - Updated 4:36am ET
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