Two still hospitalized, four treated after E-coli outbreak at daycare
By Jerry Greenway
Macon county Times
Six confirmed cases of a serious E. coli infection and four additional "suspected" cases are being looked into by the state Department of Health, according to Debbie Hoy of the agency's Cookeville office this Tuesday. All of the infected children, ages 5 and under, attended the same Key Road day care facility operated by Paulette Colter, west of Lafayette.
"Most of the six children with confirmed cases have been released from Sumner Regional Medical Center or treated by their family doctor and sent home with their parents," said Ms. Hoy. Two children, a girl age three-years and a sixteen month old boy, remain in Vanderbilt Children's Hospital where they are receiving treatment.
Ms. Hoy said she could not discuss the medical condition of the hospitalized children, but all of the children who have been treated and released are improving and doing well, she said.
An additional four young children have shown symptoms but have not become dangerously ill from the E. coli strain of infection, which can lead to serious complications including damage to the kidneys.
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