Vegetable scare hits Europe

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people to stay away from all tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce:German health authorities

04 June,2011 12:22 pm

As scientists scramble to find the source of an E. coli outbreak linked to raw vegetables that has killed 18 in Europe and sickened nearly 2,000, consumers.Cook it or dont eat it, Hamburg kidney specialist Rolf Stahl told reporters at a news conference about the epidemicConsumers from the northern German city of Hamburg the epicenter of the outbreak to Bulgaria, Spain, France and Sweden were worried about which vegetables and fruit they could still eat and what they should avoid.Most of those sickened say they ate vegetables beforehand. But without being able to pinpoint the source,