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The trial — a first for thousands of similar cases across the country to make it to a jury — has lasted three weeks. The jury of nine women and three men will now deliberate over whether the heartburn drug caused an 89-year-old Brookfield woman's colon cancer.
The risk to the public remains low, but farmworkers exposed to infected animals are at higher risk, health officials said. As of Wednesday, the virus had been confirmed in 51 dairy herds in nine states.
The executive, a medical doctor who oversaw drug safety for decades at drugmaker GSK, repeatedly pushed back on the claim that the popular heartburn drug causes cancer.