Fairbury Steaks, located in Fairbury, Nebrask is recalling approximately 90 pounds of fresh ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced this ground beef recall on Wednesday, November
18, 2009.

According to the CDC, two people have died from E. coli after an outbreak in ground beef. A total of 28 people have been reported ill with E. coli and 16 are hospitalized. The E. coli outbreak is from a USDA recall of fresh ground beef products announced last week.

A meat recall affecting several New England states has been expanded. A beef recall of more than a half-million-pounds of ground beef was issued Friday by its producer, Fairbank Farms of Ashville, NY, but on Monday announced it has expanded the range of affected states to include all Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states.

Vancouver Lake is closed to swimmers due to E. coli and blue-green algae. Vancouver Lake Regional Park will remain open to the public.

Scientists have shown that E. coli – one of the best known and extensively studied organisms in the world – remains an enigma that may hold the key to human diseases, such as cancer.

On Friday, Nestle voluntarily recalled its Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products. The FDA and CDC are investigating E. coli reports that may be related eating raw cookie dough.

Here we go again with another food recall. In this case, it's a beef recall and once again our old foe, e. coli is involved. Ground beef produced by Valley Meats LLC of Coal Valley, Illinois is the subject of a federally-mandated recall.

Bacteria hunker down and survive antibiotic attack when a protein flips a chemical switch that throws them into a dormant state until treatment abates, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the Jan.16 edition of Science.

Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have taken a major step forward in the field of metabolic engineering, successfully using the bacterium Escherichia coli to synthesize a class of natural products known bacterial aromatic polyketides, which include important antibiotic and anticancer drugs.

A team of researchers from Penn State University and the University of Chicago has uncovered clues that may explain how and why a particular virus, called N4, injects an unusual substance -- an RNA polymerase protein -- into an E. coli bacterial cell.

Think researchers know all there is to know about Escherichia coli, commonly known as E. coli? Think again. "E. coli has more than four thousand genes, and the functions of one-fourth of these remain unknown," says Dr. Deborah Siegele, a biology professor at Texas A&M University whose laboratory specializes in carrying out research using the bacterium.

A new study in SCI's Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture shows that konjac gum and sesame seed extract may offer protection against different strains of E. coli and Salmonella bacteria.