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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Jonel Aleccia

Teen fights kidney failure after eating McDonald’s Quarter Pounders

15-year-old is one at least 75 people sickened and 22 hospitalized in the E coli outbreak tentatively traced to contaminated onions - (AP)

A 15-year-old high school freshman is hospitalized with severe complications of food poisoning after eating McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers three times in the weeks before a deadly E coli outbreak was detected.

Kamberlyn Bowler, of Grand Junction, Colorado, had to be flown 250 miles to a hospital near Denver in mid-October, where she received dialysis for 10 days in an urgent effort to save her kidneys.

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