The Coming Crisis:  E. coli breaks out in France, 5 children are in the hospital.  Five children admitted to a hospital in northern France after eating beefburgers infected with a stain of E. coli bacteria are seriously ill, health officials said on Thursday, fanning fears of a wider outbreak.  Officials said the bacteria did not appear to be related to the lethal strain of E. coli that has killed 37 people and made 3,000 ill, most of them in northern Germany.  A privately owned German disco...
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