The 17-year-old boy who was shot in Georgetown on Halloween night has died, District police said Tuesday. The teenager, who was identified as Tyronn Vincent Garner of Southeast, was one of six people injured in the outbreak of violence in the District on Oct. 31, when five separate shootings took place over the course of about five hours citywide. Read full article > >

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Unsanitary conditions at a cantaloupe packing plant probably contributed to the outbreak that has killed more than two dozen people, including one in Maryland, federal regulators said Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration determined last month that Jensen Farms in Colorado was the source of the cantaloupes contaminated with Listeria, a dangerous but rare bacterium that thrives in damp and cool conditions. As the illnesses mounted, the incident became the country’s deadliest foodborne outbreak in more than 25 years. Unsanitary conditions at a cantaloupe packing plant probably contributed to the outbreak that has killed more than two dozen people, including one in Maryland, federal regulators said Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration determined last month that Jensen Farms in Colorado was the source of the cantaloupes contaminated with Listeria, a dangerous but rare bacterium that thrives in damp and cool conditions. As the illnesses mounted, the incident became the country’s deadliest foodborne outbreak in more than 25 years. Unsanitary conditions at a cantaloupe packing plant probably contributed to the outbreak that has killed more than two dozen people, including one in Maryland, federal regulators said Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration determined last month that Jensen Farms in Colorado was the source of the cantaloupes contaminated with Listeria, a dangerous but rare bacterium that thrives in damp and cool conditions. As the illnesses mounted, the incident became the country’s deadliest foodborne outbreak in more than 25 years. Read full article > >

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AMMAN, Jordan — The failure of U.S. and international efforts to rekindle Middle East peace talks last month has all but doomed chances for a breakthrough in the near future, Jordan’s King Abdullah II said in an interview in which he warned that the failure may cause the outbreak of a new armed uprising in the Palestinian territories. The monarch, a key U.S. ally and the leader of one of only two Arab countries to sign peace treaties with Israel, said the Jewish state’s increasingly conservative political climate has rendered its government incapable of making the kinds of meaningful concessions needed for peace. Read full article > >

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LONDON — The E. coli bacteria responsible for a mysterious outbreak that has left 18 people dead and sickened hundreds is a new strain that has never been seen before, the World Health Organization said Thursday. Preliminary genetic sequencing suggests the strain is a mutant form of two different E. coli bacteria, with aggressive genes that could explain why the outbreak appears to be so massive and dangerous, the agency said. “This is a unique strain that has never been isolated from patients before,” Hilde Kruse, a food safety expert at WHO, told The Associated Press. The new strain has “various characteristics that make it more virulent and toxin-producing” than the many E. coli strains people naturally carry in their intestines. Read full article > >

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The findings of the public inquiry into the outbreak of Clostridium Difficile in Northern Trust hospitals will be released on Monday.

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While it’s not terribly surprising the Playboy Mansion would be ground zero for the outbreak of something or other, a mysterious respiratory illness probably isn’t at the top of the list. Los Angeles County health officials are investigating dozens of…

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A further 17 people have died of the flu virus in Scotland in the last week, bringing the total in this outbreak to 27.

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After Hurricane Tomas dumped several inches of rain in Haiti, authorities are concerned that the outbreak of cholera could spread.

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The Bishop of Lewes is criticised for comparing the debate over the ordination of women bishops to the outbreak of World War II.

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New suspected cholera cases in Haiti raise fears that the epidemic is moving closer to the capital Port-au-Prince as some Haitians blame UN peace keepers for the outbreak of the disease.

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The first cases of cholera are detected and isolated in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, raising fears over the outbreak that has killed more than 200 people.

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People in the Heads of the Valleys area have not had enough information on the outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, says a Conservative AM.

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