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  • A farm worker throws away cucumbers outside a greenhouse in Algarrobo, near Malaga, Spain, on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Cucumbers from the region have been implicated in a deadly outbreak of E. Coli that has killed 16 people in Europe. (AP Photo/Sergio Torres)

    More sick, dead in European E. coli outbreak

    Two new deaths linked to a mysterious bacterial outbreak in Europe blamed on tainted vegetables were reported Tuesday, including the first outside Germany, as the number of reported cases continued to rise.


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