3rd E. coli death confirmed in Neb. lady

06.oct.06
New York Times/ Omaha World-Herald (Nebraska)/Associated Press 

OMAHA, Neb. -- An elderly woman who died in late August was infected with E. coli after eating fresh spinach, bringing to three the number of people who have perished in a nationwide outbreak of the bacteria, health officials said Friday.
State health officials were cited as saying the woman, who was in her 80s, ate spinach contaminated with the same strain of E. coli that has sickened at least 190 other people around the country.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that the woman's death had been linked to the outbreak.
The news came a day after Idaho health officials confirmed that a 2-year-old boy had died from eating contaminated greens. Tainted spinach also killed an elderly Wisconsin woman.