How does the growth of Escherichia coli
The epidemic caused by an aggressive strain of the bacterium Escherichia coli, EHEC specifically, continues to spread in Europe and the World Health Organization (WHO) and reported 35 dead.
Susanna Jacob, WHO expert, described the outbreak as “the most severe E. Coli ever recorded in Europe,” appropriated the news agency DPA.
According to the authorities of the organization, of the 35 deaths in the outbreak, 34 are German and one Swedish. And despite two days ago first identified the source of the outbreak in some vegetables from farm outbreaks of organic farming in Lower Saxony, cases of EHEC and dangerous complication that can bring, hemolytic uremic syndrome, continue to rising.
In the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, one of the hardest hit by the epidemic, the number of infected increased this weekend in 33, three of them with severe renal insufficiency.
Totaling more than 4,000 people living in different parts of the country and many of them suffer the consequences for life.
“About a hundred patients have suffered kidney damage severe enough to need a transplant or lifetime depends on dialysis,” says Rep. Karl Lauterbach, an expert on social health of the parliamentary group.
Lauterbach said that “the advance agent of EHEC in the world. Also in Germany can register again and again new outbreaks.”
After finding the source of infection, the U.S. authorities redoubled efforts to discover how the deadly bacteria strain came to the organic farm, which also sickened three employees.
German Minister for Consumer Protection, Isle Aligner, provided it is reviewed shoot production in the country and the seeds used.
Also hypothesized that bacteria could have come through the wastewater treatment plants, which concentrated waste sludge used as fertilizer in agriculture.