20 E. coli cases linked to illness outbreak across Commonwealth

In News, State by OC Monitor Staff

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Department for Public Health announced today 20 Kentuckians have tested positive with a strain of E. coli O103. Public health investigators have not yet identified the source of the outbreak, but have noted that some sort of food distribution is a likely mechanism for this outbreak among many of the people afflicted by the sometimes life-threatening bacteria.

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