| escherichia coli o157:h7 infections associated with ground beef from a u.s. military installation--okinawa, japan, february 2004. | in february 2004, the okinawa prefectural chubu health center (ochc) and the okinawa prefectural institute of health and environment (oihe), japan, investigated three cases of escherichia coli o157:h7 infection in a japanese family associated with eating ground beef. public health officials from multiple agencies in japan and the united states collaborated on this investigation, which resulted in a voluntary recall of approximately 90,000 pounds of frozen ground beef in the united states and at ... | 2005 | 15660018 |