Thursday, 22 June 2017

PRO/AH/EDR> E. coli EHEC - UK: (England) O157

E. coli -- United Kingdom
Parents have been warned to be alert for signs of a "very infectious" strain of _E. coli_ after a pupil was taken ill. A pupil from Thurnby Lodge Primary, in Leicester, contracted the O157 strain of the bug, which can cause kidney damage. The source of the infection, caught over the half-term holidays, is not known, the school said. The severity of the illness has not been disclosed, but pupils in the same class were sent letters by Public Heath England.
The letter said because the strain

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