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Jurors deliberated for just over four hours from Wednesday afternoon to Thursday morning. The three-week trial — a first of thousands of similar cases nationwide to appear before a jury — wrapped up Wednesday.
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.