The UK’s Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) has tested feces from lambs, pigs, goats, cattle, ponies and rabbits at Godstone Farm near Surrey and found the dangerous E. coli O157:H7 strain in 33 of 102 samples. The Health Protection Agency (HPA) called in VLA.
"Joint HPA and VLA investigations have confirmed the presence of E. coli
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South East England hospitals are caring for a dozen children with infections from the dangerous E. coli O157:H7 bacteria that they picked up at a popular petting farm near Surrey. All are under age 10.
All totaled health officials in the United Kingdom (UK) say 36 people were exposed to the bacteria, which was traced
Eastern Tennessee’s Appalachian Fair is the suspected source of the E. coli O157:H7 infections in two children.
The Johnson City Medical Center is reporting that two children are being treated in the hospital with infections of the deadly bacteria.
A week ago, doctors found four-year-old Gage Peterson has E. coli. Three week prior to Peterson’s
The 2006 outbreak of E. coli tied to spinach sickened more than 205 people nationwide, many gravely. More than 31 developed Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) and five lost their lives.
One of the most critically ill was Jane Majeska of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, an 85-year old woman whose fight to stay alive in the
"People just don’t really understand how horrible food-borne illness is," said William Marler, a prominent Seattle-based food-safety lawyer who is representing the Rivera family and 23 other victims in the cookie dough outbreak. "They think food-borne illness is a tummy ache and diarrhea."
That quote from Mr. Marler is found today in a story that