The death of a 4-year-old Tennessee girl in May has been determined to be from E. coli O157:H7 in venison.
The girl was one of two patients diagnosed with infections from the pathogen. Both had consumed venison from the same processing facility in Puryear, TN, according to a report from the Tennessee Department of Health.
The Tennessee girl and a patient in Texas were infected with identical strains of the pathogen. The only common food the patients ate was venison from processing facility, which state officials are referring to as “Facility L.”…