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Tuesday, April 23, 2013  The Adams County Health Department has free bacteria and nitrate test kits available.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013  Believe it or not, Spring is here. And with the season comes the sweet peeping of chicks and ducklings. But these baby animals can be quite a handful.

Thursday, February 16, 2012  APNewsBreak: Obama's budget axes USDA program that tests for deadly bacteria in fresh produce

Friday, December 23, 2011  Wal-Mart pulled the Enfamil Newborn formula from shelves as a precaution following the death of little Avery Cornett in the southern Missouri town of Lebanon.

Monday, November 07, 2011  State health investigators have focused on Schnucks markets because most of the people who got sick reported recently eating from salad bars in at least five stores in the St. Louis region. But the health department says that no food samples tested have had E. coli.

Friday, July 01, 2011  Mark Twain State Park Public Beach will be closed this holiday weekend ... again due to high levels of E. coli.

Thursday, June 09, 2011  Mark Twain State Park swimming beach is closed for again.

Monday, November 22, 2010  A University of Missouri researcher hopes a new lab test will more quickly identify a food-poisoning bacteria often found in poultry and eggs.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010  Cedar Rapids, Iowa schools are set to offer whooping cough vaccines next month as the bacterial infection continues to spread across Iowa.

Monday, November 08, 2010  Many cooks in Illinois are planning "sustainable" Thanksgiving meals this year, starring naturally raised turkeys.

Monday, September 13, 2010  An infectious-disease nightmare is unfolding: Bacteria that have been made resistant to nearly all antibiotics by an alarming new gene have sickened people in three states and are popping up all over the world, health officials reported Monday

Monday, August 30, 2010  A 22 year old student at Western Illinois University in Macomb has been diagnosed with bacterial meningitis.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010  The Missouri Department of Natural Resources says high levels of e coli bacteria forces the closure of swimming beach at Mark Twain State Park.

Thursday, August 19, 2010  Thursday was only the second time that lake has been open all summer.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010  An egg company in Iowa is expanding the voluntarily recall of some of its eggs out of concern they may be tainted with salmonella bacteria.