Another 41 confirmed or probable cases of E. coli O104:H4 infection were counted in Europe Friday, increasing the outbreak toll to 3,908, including 765 with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reported that three previously counted deaths have been subtracted from the total…
After four students in Germany were sickened by E. coli O104:H4 infections, preliminary tests indicated that 22 out of 30 children at the same school were also infected with the outbreak strain but had no symptoms, health officials reported this week.
Asymptomatic E. coli O104:H4 infection was also found in…
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Five more E. coli O104:H4 infections have been confirmed within the cluster of Bordeaux patients who ate sprouts at an event in early June, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reported Monday.
The University of Minnesota-based Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) said the…
The first fatality in the United States associated with the outbreak of E. coli O104:H4 in Europe was an Arizona man who had traveled to Germany, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Friday.
The CDC had been investigating whether the man’s death in June was related to the…
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The outbreak of E. coli O104:H4 in Europe struck mostly women and men in their prime who thought they were eating healthy food, the director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) noted in a speech July 5 in Sopot, Poland.
“Hundreds of them have been damaged…
The European Union banned the import of certain Egyptian seeds and beans Tuesday following an official report that a single batch of well-travelled Egyptian fenugreek seeds probably caused two European outbreaks of E. coli poisoning that have sickened 4,211 people and killed at least 50.
A task force of health…
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reported Monday that the European toll in the outbreak of E. coli O104:H4 in Germany and France linked to sprouts had risen to 4,173 illnesses and 49 deaths.
Those numbers include 892 hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) cases, according to ECDC.
A…
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What are the lessons learned so far from the O104:H4 outbreak?
German medical and public health authorities are burdened by the equivalent of more than 10 normal years worth of case loads occurring in a single month, the continuing need for secondary infection prevention, the outbreak source investigation and perhaps…
Seed company threatens to sue American news sites for naming it as suspect in European E. coli outbreak.
The investigation into the European E. coli crisis linked to sprouts has been closing in on Egyptian fenugreek seeds. But the name of a possible importer of those seeds mysteriously disappeared from…
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French health authorities have confirmed what has been suspected for days, that the E. coli outbreak in Bordeaux is linked to the earlier German epidemic, and that contaminated sprouts may well still be available across Europe and the world.
Fifteen French citizens, most of them women, have been stricken with…
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