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The "Beef" About UTIs

Women are finding it harder than ever to get rid of their urinary tract infections (UTI) via the conventional route: A regimen of sulpha drugs used most commonly to treat them. According to a new study by the University of California, Berkeley, a woman's resistance to drugs may come from an unlikely source: Eating beef from cattle infected with a multi-drug resistant strain of E. coli bacteria. The study began during a review of campus health records, when scientists found 22 percent...