5-year-old dies from O-157 poisoning

5-year-old dies from O-157 poisoning

NARA, Japan - Health center officials prepare for a stool test at a nursery in Ikoma, Nara Prefecture, on August 1 in the wake of the death of a 5-year-old boy in this season's first outbreak of the O-157 strain of E. coli bacteria.

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