Article: E. coli found on floor of U. Wisconsin Stock Pavilion

Liz Elegant
University Wire
11-06-2001
(The Daily Cardinal) (U-WIRE) MADISON, Wis. -- University of Wisconsin-Madison officials have found the floor of the UW-Madison Stock Pavilion to be a source of the E. coli bacteria Oct. 6 that left 35 people sick after a pre-Badger football game pancake and sausage breakfast last month.

"As part of the investigation, we took manure samples and found that one cow tested positive [for E. coli]," said University Health Services Epidemiologist Craig Roberts.

How exactly the victims came in contact with the bacteria is still unclear.

"E. coli has to be ingested through the mouth, so it's total speculation at this point as to how the contamination occurred," ...

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