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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By William Neuman / The Bulletin
September 22, 2010
On a July night in 1987, scores of elderly and chronically ill patients at Bird S. Coler Memorial Hospital in New York City began to fall violently sick with food poisoning from eggs tainted with salmonella.
“It was like a war zone,” said Dr. Philippe Tassy, the doctor on call as the sickness....