Germany sets up E.coli task force
By Eric Kelsey and Kate Kelland | China Daily | Updated: 2011-06-04 08:07
A trader in a market in St. Petersburg. Russia banned imports of raw vegetables from the European Union on Thursday because of a deadly E.coli outbreak centered in Germany. Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters |
BERLIN/LONDON - Racing to curb the spread of a killer food bug, Germany set up a national task force on Friday to hunt down the source of a highly toxic strain of E.coli that killed 17 people and sounded alarms around the world.
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