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A Vancouver boy who was hospitalized for an E. coli infection died recently. One of four children hospitalized due to an outbreak, the youngster, whose name was not released, had apparently contracted the infection from a Vancouver day care center. Officials temporarily closed the home-based day care center, operated by Larry and Dianne Fletch, on April 2, reports say. The day care had operated since 1990 and had no complaints filed against it prior to the death, reports say. In…

A Knox County, Kentucky resident, died recently at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington after being admitted for intestinal problems. The victim, Vickie Shelton, had eaten ground beef before becoming ill, and public health officials conducted tests to determine whether that ground beef was contaminated with E. Coli. Before it was discovered that the meat was tainted, the American Foods Group of Green Bay, Wisconsin issued the recall on products produced in October and reportedly shipped to retailers and distributors in…

Louisiana inspectors are focusing on the restraining device on a 21-year-old woman’s seat which may have failed, vaulting the woman from a Baton Rouge Amusement park’s roller coaster, killing her, reports say Lindsay Zeno was killed when the bar that goes between the rider’s legs and is supposed to secure the rider in place reportedly failed. The coaster, named the “Xtreme”, has had no previous issues with safety or safety restraints. Reports also say the park passed a national inspection…

Reports say some commercially packaged Leadbetter Cowboy Beef Burger has been the cause of five possible E. coli infections, with at least one more suspected case being investigated. The cases have reportedly occurred at a youth camp in Ontario, Canada, and that at least one of those sickened by the tainted burgers had to be hospitalized. Although the youth has now been released — and everyone else who was stricken by the meat has recovered – the public needs to…

A North Carolina machinist was killed earlier this month as a metal rod departed the high-speed lathe on which he worked, striking and killing him. The accident, which occurred at the Statesville machine shop facility of R.P Machine, happened as the victim, 62-year-old Leonard Key, of Mooresville, had been working on a lathe on the Cochran Street shop. A metal rod he was machining was ejected by the lathe at a high rate of speed and hit Key directly in…