Agency Tracks Workers, Lettuce in Taco Bell Tainted-Food Case

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The probe into E. coli contamination at Taco Bell restaurants had divided along multiple fronts: local surveillance of workers who may be infected but not know it, and a widening national hunt for the bulk of the lettuce that the chain's supplier sold beyond Taco Bell.

Even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that the outbreak is over, Dr. Patricia Dillon, director of communicable diseases at the Suffolk County Health Department on Long Island in New York, pointed to the vulnerability of Taco Bell employees because they handled the bulk of the food.

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Agency Tracks Workers, Lettuce in Taco Bell Tainted-Food Case

Her department has launched a surveillance program to deter...

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