The Tulsa City-County Health Department said three children have been sickened by E. coli bacteria.
Agency spokeswoman Melanie Christian said the department’s lab confirmed the cases in the children, who are under 10 years old. Christian said two of the children were hospitalized but one has gone home.
She says two of the children are
Dutch authorities recalled red beet sprouts from three countries Thursday after samples were found to be contaminated with a strain of E. coli bacteria that was apparently less dangerous than the one causing Europe’s deadly E. coli crisis.
German health officials, meanwhile, reported that three more people died of the ailment Thursday, raising the toll
According to press reports in Thailand, the government said Thursday that it had found E. coli bacteria in avocados imported from Europe and was checking whether it was the same strain as the one behind a deadly outbreak in Europe.
The government urged the public not to panic, noting that there are several types of
Thanks to Reuters and Lisa Baertlein or I would have not known that the United States has made headway fighting a deadly E. coli, but a lethal outbreak in Germany and a lack of progress against Salmonella show how much remains to be done to keep food safe, health officials said on Tuesday.
European scientists
According to news reports, a child in SW Virginia has died of an E. coli infection, and another person “in close contact” with the child has been infected as well.
Virginia Department of Health spokesman Robert Parker said Monday afternoon that the E. coli that killed the child and infected a second person has been
One child has died, two more are in the hospital, and seven others have suffered E. coli infections this month. Health officials said they are treating reports, “like an outbreak.”
Michigan and Wisconsion residents who recently returned from northern Germany is among four people in the U.S. apparently sickened by a severe E. coli outbreak that has killed 22 people in Europe, state health officiasl said.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday that three of the four had been hospitalized with
Annie Scholz 0f TMJ4 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin reports tonight that a patient in a Milwaukee-area hospital has been diagnosed with HUS, a symptom of the strain of deadly E. coli out of Europe. The announcement came Friday afternoon that the patient is an adult, traveling from Germany to Milwaukee. …
Health Commissioner Bevon Baker says
Acodrding to Food Safety News – Amarillo, TX and Tulsa, OK are connected by 400 miles of freeway, Interstates 40 and 44, and now they share investigations of small clusters of E. coli O157:H7 infection involving children.
On Wednesday, Amarillo health officials said they were investigating seven confirmed cases of O157 infection, all involving children.
Four people who traveled to Hamburg in May became ill, including two women and a man who suffered kidney failure after returning to the United States. Those three people are still hospitalized, said Dr. Chris Braden an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said those three are still hospitalized. Two other Americans