By Ethan Covey
The CDC has confirmed that a 2017 Escherichia coli outbreak that affected 12 people—two children died—on the Utah-Arizona border was caused by exposure to infected cow manure (MMWR Morbid Mortal Wkly Rep 2018;67[23]:659-662).
“This outbreak was a reminder that healthy animals like cows can carry germs like E. coli O157:H7 and make people sick,” said Laura Gieraltowski, PhD, of the Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, CDC National