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Saturday, September 29th, 2018

5 People Died From Eating Lettuce, But Trump’s FDA Still Won’t Make Farms Test Water For Bacteria

Author:     beth Shogren and Susie Neilson
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Publication Date:     09/27/2018 11:26 am ET
 Link: 5 People Died From Eating Lettuce, But Trump’s FDA Still Won’t Make Farms Test Water For Bacteria
Stephan:   The debasement of the regulatory agencies of the U.S. government is resulting in illness and deaths. It doesn't get a lot of coverage but it is happening, and ordinary Americans are suffering as a result.

Lettuce farm
Paul Sakuma/AP

William Whitt suffered violent diarrhea for days. But once he began vomiting blood, he knew it was time to rush to the hospital. His body swelled up so much that his wife thought he looked like the Michelin Man, and on the inside, his intestines were inflamed and bleeding.

For four days last spring, doctors struggled to control the infection that was ravaging Whitt, a father of three in western Idaho. The pain was excruciating, even though he was given opioid painkillers intravenously every 10 minutes for days.

His family feared they would lose him.

“I was terrified. I wouldn’t leave the hospital because I wasn’t sure he was still going to be there when I got back,” said Whitt’s wife, Melinda.

Whitt and his family were baffled: How could a healthy 37-year-old suddenly get so sick? While he was fighting for his […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 10:00 am

    Trump and his fellow congressional friends live in a science fiction world, and do not care what they do to our real world, which will kill a lot of people no matter what their political affiliation.