It's important that we think about fresh poultry containing potentially harmful bacteria.

We don't think anyone should be restricting exports of poultry because poultry is perfectly safe. There is no bird flu on poultry farms in Europe except on one turkey farm in France, where all the birds have been slaughtered.

We feel confident we feel we helped save these women's lives. They were in a potentially harmful situation.

Water used to be fresh, pure and drinkable, now the water has lots of fecal matter and bacteria.

It is self-serving and potentially misleading to associate harmful effects with something other than the test drug.

Escherichia colia O157:H7 is a relatively new strain of the common intestinal bacteria (no one had seen it before 1980) that thrives in feedlot cattle, 40 percent of which carry it in their gut. Ingesting as few as ten of these microbes can cause a fatal infection; they produce a toxin that destroys human kidneys.