Face of food safety: Tennessee boy loses battle with E. coli
Posted: June 17th, 2009 - 4:43am by Doug Powell
The Daily Times reports that an eight-year-old Blount County, Tennessee boy, who loved more than anything spending time with his identical twin, lost his fight for life at 6:31 a.m. Monday after contracting E. coli and suffering the after-effects of the disease.???.
??????Joseph Coning, 8 (right), and his twin, Jesse, were looking forward to a family vacation on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. …
The family does not know where Joseph contracted E. coli and an autopsy will be done to try and find answers.
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