A food poisoning outbreak tied to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders was caused by a common type of E. coli bacteria that can cause serious illness and death. Particularly vulnerable are young children, ...

A lawsuit has been filed in Illinois by a Colorado man who was sickened after eating McDonald's food contaminated with E. Coli as part of a multistate outbreak. According to the Centers for Disease ...

New research led by King's College London, in collaboration with the University of Westminster, has shed light on the diversity and characteristics of E. coli strains that drive diabetic foot ...

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 ...