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That's the message of a new U.S. government campaign to raise awareness of safe food handling in the wake of a European E. coli outbreak that ...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is "reasonably confident" that U.S. consumers won't face the sort of E. coli outbreak plaguing Germany.

An expert at the World Health Organization says time is running out for German investigators to find the source of the world's deadliest E. coli outbreak, which has spread fear across Europe and cost farmers millions in exports.

German hospitals are struggling to cope with the flood of E.coli victims, health minister Daniel Bahr said on Sunday, as scientists remain puzzled by the deadly bug that has killed 19 and infected 1,700 people across Europe.

Biologists are only now getting a better look at Mother Nature's latest bit of busywork.

Officials in the United States suggest that the Europeans are not looking in the right direction to fight the outbreak.

The World Health Organization said Thursday that the E. coli bacteria responsible for a deadly outbreak that has left 18 dead and sickened hundreds in Europe is a new strain that has never been seen before....

German health authorities struggled Wednesday to identify the source of an outbreak that has struck more than 1,500 people, killing at least 15.

Spain denies allegations its cucumbers caused the illness that has killed and sickened people in Germany and Sweden.