Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat

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NOW A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY From Jeff Benedict, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tiger Woods and The Dynasty, Poisoned chronicles the events surrounding the worst food-poisoning epidemic in US history: the deadly Jack in the Box E. coli infections in 1993.On December 24, 1992, six-year-old Lauren Rudolph was hospitalized with excruciating stomach pain. Less than a week later she was dead. Doctors were baffled: How could a healthy child become so sick so quickly? After a frenzied investigation, public-health officials announced that the cause was E. coli O157:H7, and the source was hamburger meat served at a Jack in the Box restaurant. During this unprecedented crisis, four children died and over seven hundred others became gravely ill. In Poisoned, award-winning investigative journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeff Benedict delivers a jarringly candid narrative of the fast-moving disaster, drawing on access to confidential documents and exclusive interviews with the real-life characters at the center of the drama—the families whose children were infected, the Jack in the Box executives forced to answer for the tragedy, the physicians and scientists who identified E. coli as the culprit, and the legal teams on both sides of the historic lawsuits that ensued. Fast Food Nation meets A Civil Action in this riveting account of how we learned the hard way to truly watch what we eat.
Copyright:
2011

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
336 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781982190187
Related ISBNs:
9781982190170
Publisher:
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
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Copyrighted By:
Rockspring Media, LLC.
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Parenting and Family, Social Studies, Medicine
Reading Age:
18 and up
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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