An E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce ripped across 15 states in November, sickening dozens of people, including a 9-year-old boy in Indiana who nearly died of kidney failure and a 57-year-old ...

Researchers have, for the first time, estimated how quickly E. coli bacteria can spread between people — and one strain moves as fast as swine flu. Using genomic data from the UK and Norway, ...

Jason Palmer, a natural resource biologist with the Iowa DNR, kneels next to a water pump at Big Creek beach in central Iowa. The pump siphons water from the knee-deep zone of the swimming area ...