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Conference set to highlight E coli research



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Published Date: 01 September 2008
THE potentially deadly E coli bug will come under the spotlight today at an international conference in Aberdeen.
A main speaker at the Food Micro event, welcoming about 850 delegates from around the world, will be food safety expert Professor Hugh Pennington. The University of Aberdeen scientist is set to ask whether lessons have been learned from the E coli outbreak in Lanarkshire in 1996 in which 21 elderly people died after eating contaminated meat. Prof Pennington is currently chairing a public inquiry into a 2005 outbreak of the bug in Wales, which killed a five-year-old and left 150 others, mainly schoolchildren, ill.

The bug is more common in North-east Scotland than anywhere else in the UK.





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  • Last Updated: 01 September 2008 12:05 AM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Hospital superbugs
 
 

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