In 1982, contaminated hamburger meat triggered a rash of violent illness in the United States and signaled that a bacterial friend of people had turned foe. The culprit turned out to be a virulent strain of Escherichia coli, normally a helpful resident of the lower intestine (SN: 7/22/00, p.
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