5 more E. coli cases blamed on spinach
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060924/ap_on_re_us/tainted_spinach"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20060921/capt.78941e68b9694de1a780b651190c31f7.spinach_destroyed_gagb101.jpg?x=130&y=102&sig=pybLgayvX129NvXLbhJS9g--" align="left" height="102" width="130" alt="General Produce, Inc., employee Don Moseley opens cases of bagged fresh spinach and tosses them into a trash dumpster at the Georgia State Farmer's Market in Forest Park, Ga., Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006. The spinach, withdrawn from the market, had been placed in storage for nearly a week after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration placed a warning on its sale. More than 550 cases were destroyed. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe)" border="0" /></a>AP - The outbreak of E. coli linked to fresh spinach was blamed for another five cases of illness Saturday, raising the number of people sickened to 171, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.</p><br clear="all"/>