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E. Coli Source Traced to Salinas Ranch

The source of the E. coli bacteria that tainted spinach crops in Central California, leading to three deaths and hundreds more made seriously ill, has been traced to cows at a ranch near the spinach fields outside the town of Salinas.

John Sepulvado from member station KAZU reports.

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