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than it is today.Much of the food peoplepurchased in open-air marketsand in old-fashioned butchershops was tainted with a wholerange of germs.It wasn't until1906when federal laws werepassed prohibiting thedistribution of impure orcontaminated foods anddrugs.The Food and DrugAdministration(FDA)enforces those laws  \nthe party was held in a farm cowpasture,health officials aren'tcertain where the contaminationoriginated.  \nA Nasty Bacterium  \nOfficials are certain,however,ofthe cause of the contamination.The villain is E.coli 0157:H7,anasty mutant bacterium pro-duced in the intestines of cattleand other animals.The bacteriamost frequently show up in animal waste.They also can betransmitted when cattle andother animals are slaughtered inan improper manner so that sub-  \nHTS  \n●Contaminated food may  \nhave played a much larger  \nrole in history than anyone hassupposed.According to a theoryby Mary Kilbourne Matossian,ahistorian,rye grain blighted witha fungus called ergot is the likely  \ncause of many outbreaks of  \nhysteria and terror,  \nsuch as the Salem  \nWitch Trials (right),  \nwhich began in  \n1692.According to  \nMatossian,ergot,  \nwhich can be highly  \npoisonous,can cause  \na whole range of  \nhallucinations,  \ndelusions,and even  \ndeath.Rye was the  \nE.coli 0157:H7 is the \"badboy\"of the family.It causesillness in humans and is  \nmain grain grown  \naround Salem,and  \nthe climactic  \nconditions favored the growth  \nof ergot.The symptoms displayedby the young women accusersduring the witch trials,saysMatossian,are exactly the same  \nas those of ergot poisoning.  \nDuring the 1950s and 60s,  \npeople liked their meat much  \nless thoroughly cooked than  \nmeat is cooked today.“Make  \nmine rare\"was a common  \nrequest.Yet outbreaks of E.colipoisoning and other foodbornediseases were not as commonas they are today.Experts think  \nstances from their intestines are mixedwith meat.  \nIn addition,the germs can be foundin milk that hasn't been pasteurized.(Pasteurization is a heating process in which  \nharmful bacteria in milk arekilled.According to law,themilk you buy in a store or asupermarket must be pasteur-ized.)The E.coli germs canalso form if conditions areunsanitary during the milkingprocess.  \nMost of the E.coli familyare beneficial,and billions ofthem work in human intes-tines to help digest food.But  \ndoubly dangerous because antibiotics—sub-stances that kill bacteria—don't killit.  \nToxins  \nOnce a person ingests a sufficient amountof E.coli 0157:H7,the nasty bacteria pro-duce a toxin,or poison,that quickly makesits way into the bloodstream.There,itcauses damage to the cells that line humanblood vessels.But for an unknown reason,the toxin sometimes targets the kidneys,particularly in children and elderly people,and this ultimately can lead to kidney fail-ure and death.  \nThe symptoms of E.coli poisoning aresevere stomach cramps,diarrhea,vomiting,dehydration (a loss of liquid throughout thebody),confusion,and high fever.  \nthe increase may be due to  \nchanges in the way meat is  \nE.coli poisoning is not just limited to afew highly publicized incidents each year.According to the U.S.Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention (CDC),about 20,000  \nbutchered and processed.  \nA food service worker checks a baked pofato at aschool cafeteria in Richland,Wash.Officials are beingcareful after students were sickened last year by an  \nE.coli outbreak in a nearby school.  \nAmericans suffer from E.coli poisoningeach year.Although most victims recoverafter a day or two,several hundred die eachyear as a result ofthe illness.  \nMore Widespread?  \nHealth officials fear that E.coli contamina-tion could become more frequent and wide-spread because food products from a singlefood processing plant are often shipped allover the country.  \nIn 1993,two people died and more than700 got sick after eating E.coli-contaminat-ed hamburgers distributed by a 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