7 kids sick with E. coli after swimming at Illinois beaches

The Will County Health Department in Illinois is investigating a cluster of E. coli cases reported from beaches in the Wilmington-Essex area during the last two weeks of July — including seven involving children.

The stories do not say what strain of E. coli was involved.

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