The Tennessee health department has confirmed that the seven people who fell ill ate at a Hixson restaurant between July 8th and 20th, reports WDEF-TV.
Since then, employees of the restaurant have all tested negative for the bacteria, and health inspectors have made sure that the restaurant was thoroughly sanitized.
Three of Janet King’s four
Three children from one family became ill with E. coli O157:H7 infections in early July. One child remains in a Knoxville hospital, hospitalized with hemolytic uremic syndrome, but the other two are recovering, reports Newschannel 9.
But over the last ten days, 18-month-old Harley King has been to Children’s Hospital twice fighting off the
Another E. coli outbreak has hit Middle Tennessee, sending more kids to the hospital, according to WTVF-TV Nashville.
Doctors were treating six new children Tuesday night, and there is concern more kids will get sick from the bacterial infection. Two of the patients are suffering from kidney failure. The rest are still recovering.
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Newschannel5.com reports that two more children from a day care had to be admitted to Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital because of complications from E. coli.
There were currently four children in the hospital. Ten kids altogether from Macon County have come down with E. coli. The day care center has been shut down and is