Forwarded by someone who should have his own damn site but doesn’t:
CHICAGO (AP) - State public health officials say an elderly woman has been hospitalized with kidney problems related to her consumption of tainted spinach.
The case marks the first confirmed illness in Illinois linked to an outbreak of E-coli in fresh spinach.
So far, one person has died and more than 100 others across the nation have been sickened by the contaminated spinach.
The Illinois Department of Public Health says the woman became ill in late August and is now hospitalized with a form of kidney failure (called Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome).
The officials say the woman is from north-central Illinois and has a history of eating fresh spinach.
Journalism is hard.
What do you suppose constitutes fact-checking for that?
Incidentally, immediately after finishing this story and pronouncing the writer a doof, I left my desk, went to lunch, and ordered fresh spinach on my sandwich. For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out why the guy looked at me like that when he said they didn’t have any.
September 19th, 2006 at 11:03 pm
I’m not sure if I should be worried about the Papa John’s spinach alfredo pizza — is that fresh spinach? Should we not have eaten it cold?
September 20th, 2006 at 10:52 am
I think I know that look. It was the one I was wearing on Sunday night, when Fox News (Chicago) ran a story on the killer spinach and its impact on local restaurants, then promptly cut to a man loading his car with bags the restaurants had tossed. The tag that ran under his name? “Spinach Defender.”