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Europe - 19 dead, 2000+ infected, 500 severe cases of E-coli - EHEC STEC hemolytic uremic syndrome
Re: Rising number of acute EHEC-infections in Germany (May 22, 2011)
Jay
31-year-old Polish woman is in a hospital in Szczecin. Her condition is very bad . Woman is poisoned to EHEC strain of bacteria. It is known that the patient was in Germany. There ate cucumbers .
29-latka z Piły trafiła do Kliniki Chorób Zakaźnych Wojewódzkiego Szpitala Zespolonego im. Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie z podejrzeniem zakażenia bakteriami coli. Jej stan jest ciężki, ale stabilny.
Re: Rising number of acute EHEC-infections in Germany (May 22, 2011)
Nine dead in German E. coli outbreak May 29, 2011
BERLIN: Two more Germans, both women, died yesterday of a bacterial outbreak allegedly caused by contaminated Spanish cucumbers, bringing the number of deaths to nine
Re: Rising number of acute EHEC-infections in Germany (May 22, 2011)
Spanish to English translation
Cucumbers infection has 10 dead and spread to France
Agencies
Posted on Saturday May 28, 2011, 20:49 pm
MADRID, 28 (OTR / PRESS)
Increase infection by ingestion of contaminated cucumbers by the bacterium E. coli, this Saturday has been shown not know borders with the death of two Germans in the UK and the emergence in France of three suspected cases of poisoning, which has forced the European Commission to recommend to the citizens who have moved to Germany to monitor the occurrence of any symptoms. For its part, Spain has suspended the operations of two distributors of Andalusia, in front of the mayor of Almeria, which has been criticized for being accused "without proof."
Two people have died and a third would be infected in the UK by the bacterium E. Coli ", which are dead and ten intoxicated by this bacterium associated with cucumbers exported to Germany from Spain.
However, this figure could increase because, at around 300 people are in the hospital because of infection and five hundred Germans who underwent tests would have to add now three cases of poisoning in France.
Re: Rising number of acute EHEC-infections in Germany (May 22, 2011)
EHEC-source
Contaminated water suspected
Saturday, 05/28/2011
New evidence for the bacterial source: An eyewitness observed for FOCUS information, that vegetable farmers in Murcia used waste water to irrigate their orchards .
A witness has pointed out a possible cause of the contamination of Spanish cucumbers with the intestinal bacterial EHEC. According to FOCUS, she just visited Switzerland when the diarrheal disease broke out. The woman infected with the EHEC bacterium contacted the authorities. She reported that she had worked as a field worker near the southern Spanish city of Murcia.
She named two companies, which used waste water to irrigate their plantations. The companies exported fruit, tomatoes, cucumbers and eggplant.
Re: Rising number of acute EHEC-infections in Germany (May 22, 2011)
German - detected to English translation
86-year-old died in L?beck - So now ten Ehec-Tote
Sunday 29 May 2011, 12:05 clock
Berlin (Reuters) - The number of an infection with EHEC bacteria people who died increased with the death of a 86-year-olds in L?beck to ten.
The woman had died on Saturday of the hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), said a spokesman for the University Clinic in L?beck on Sunday. Her husband was being treated in hospital. Total would be in the hospital 70 patients with HUS. Per day would expect ten new cases.
Re: Rising number of acute EHEC-infections in Germany (May 22, 2011)
German to English translation (Google)
05/29/2011, 16:40
"Situation is very serious"
Excerpt:
The condition of many HUS patients in the Hamburg University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE) is, according to the UKE-chairman Prof. J?rg Debatin extremely critical. Of the 80 patients four children and 14 adults are in intensive care. A total of 30 HUS sufferers no longer renal function, Debatin said. "The situation is very serious."
Whether the new touch therapy with the antibody eculizumab ago, it was not yet say. "The assessment of the effect take weeks," said Debatin. In the Hanseatic city for at least two EHEC patient to the dangerous pathogens are dead. The hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) can occur as a serious complication of EHEC infection. It leads to severe kidney damage.
According to the EU's disease control authority ECDC is one of the world's most serious outbreaks of such Ehec variants that can cause HUS - and to watch the biggest outbreak in Germany. Immediate danger to other European countries provides for the authority as at present.
Re: Rising number of acute EHEC-infections in Germany (May 22, 2011)
machinetranslation
German cucumbers suspected now...
05 29 2011
EHEC on cucumbers from Mecklenburg-Vor Pommern?
Even ten days after the outbreak of EHEC epidemic in Northern Germany the source of
teh pathogen is unclear. After four cucumbers from the Hamburg Wholesale Market, the
Bacterium had been detected, scientists have now discovered the bacteria in three samples of
Cucumbers of different origins in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Whether the cucumber were actually contaminated with the EHEC pathogen can
will be confirmed according to consumer protection ministry only by further investigations. The Results are not expected until the middle of next week.
Re: Rising number of acute EHEC-infections in Germany (May 22, 2011)
May 30 , 2011
Hospital chief: the number of new infections shows "significant decline"
The first good news was from the UKE-chief who reported on Monday: The number of new infections with the lethal EHEC intestinal germ is "significantly decreased".
This was said by the chief executive of University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Prof. J?rg Debatin, on Monday in Hamburg.
The number of patients with HUS complication, the hemolytic-uremic syndrome is, however, stable. Several dozens are severely ill, or even critical.
Re: Rising number of acute EHEC-infections in Germany (May 22, 2011)
May 30 , 2011
Eleventh death by intestinal germ
The number of diarrheal diseases caused by the EHEC pathogen in Germany continues to rise further - still mostly women are affected. The search for the exact origin of the bacteria continues.
Re: Rising number of acute EHEC-infections in Germany (May 22, 2011)
Europe worries as 11th German dies, fresh veg ban extended (update) Update 13:45 BERN, SWITZERLAND ? German public health authorities and researchers at the Robert Koch Institute are still trying to determine the source and precise nature of the deadly E.coli outbreak in their country. The death of an 11th person was announced Monday and a specialist in western Germany, interviewed on television Sunday night, noted that while Germany normally sees about 1,000 cases a year, it has had 1,200 cases in the past 10 days...http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/...tended-update/
Re: Rising number of acute EHEC-infections in Germany (May 22, 2011)
For the first time H2H EHEC contamination is reported in Germany.
A student from Hamburg probably contaminated 3 other students . The class was sent home for a week.
Hamburger Schulklasse kriegt Ehec-frei
An einem Hamburger Gymnasium haben sich vier Sch?ler einer 10. Klasse mit dem Ehec-Darmkeim infiziert. Vorsorglich wurde die ganze Klasse f?r eine Woche beurlaubt. Vermutlich hat ein Erkrankter die Bakterien an Mitsch?ler ?bertragen.
Re: Rising number of acute EHEC-infections in Germany (May 22, 2011)
Number of EHEC deaths rises to 13 in Germany
Today a second woman died in Nord-Rhein-Westfalen province after contamination with the EHEC bacteria . The woman was between 40 and 50 years old.
The total number of EHEC (or VTEC in English) fatalities climbs to 13.
Zweiter EHEC-Todesfall in NRW
30.05.2011, 15:28 Uhr |
G?tersloh (dapd-nrw). Nach einer 91 Jahre alten Frau in Paderborn ist eine zweite Frau im Kreis G?tersloh an der gef?hrlichen Darminfektion EHEC gestorben. Es handele sich dabei um eine Patientin zwischen 40 und 50 Jahren, teilte die Kreisverwaltung am Montag mit. Auch diese Frau litt am sogenannten H?molytisch-Ur?misches Syndrom (HUS), das durch EHEC verursacht wird und schlimmstenfalls zu Blutver?nderungen und Nierenversagen f?hrt.
Damit hat sich die Zahl der in Deutschland im Zusammenhang mit EHEC- Infektionen verstorbenen Menschen auf 13 erh?ht. Hunderte Menschen sind erkrankt.
Re: Rising number of acute EHEC-infections in Germany (May 22, 2011)
EHEC bacteria found in Spanish cucumbers in Norway too
The bacteria was found in a small batch, which was not marketed yet.
Erreger auch in Norwegen in spanischen Gurken entdeckt
30. Mai 2011, 17:03
Oslo - Die Beh?rden in Norwegen haben den Erreger der gef?hrlichen Darminfektion EHEC in einer Gurkenlieferung aus Spanien entdeckt. Das teilte die Lebensmittelaufsicht in Oslo am Montag mit. Weiter hie? es, es habe sich um eine sehr kleine Partie gehandelt, die noch nicht in den Handel gekommen sei.
Re: Rising number of acute EHEC-infections in Germany (May 22, 2011)
Germany E.coli cucumber death toll rises to 14
By Eric Kelsey, Reuters May 30, 2011 12:59 PM
BERLIN - An E. coli outbreak linked to contaminated cucumbers that has killed 14 people and made more than 300 seriously ill in Germany has spread to other north European countries and is expected to worsen in the coming weekhttp://www.montrealgazette.com/healt...988/story.html
Re: Rising number of acute EHEC-infections in Germany (May 22, 2011)
Three Americans with EHEC infection
All 3 visited Germany.
Drei Amerikaner an EHEC erkrankt
Montag, 30. Mai 2011
Der gef?hrliche EHEC-Keim breitet sich auch au?erhalb Deutschlands und sogar au?erhalb Europas weiter aus. Mindestens drei Amerikaner, die zuvor in Deutschland waren, seien erkrankt.
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