Tuesday, 5 September 2017

PRO/AH/EDR> Foodborne illness - South Korea: (NJ) fast food restaurant burger, poss EHEC, RFI

Foodborne Illness -- South Korea
Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is conducting an epidemiological investigation into a case of 7 children and 1 adult who showed symptoms of food poisoning with vomiting and diarrhea after eating McDonald's hamburgers on 25 Aug 2017 at a Jeonju branch in North Jeolla.
Authorities are not ruling out the possibility that the 8 individuals contracted hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), widely known as "hamburger disease," a bacterial infection that can leave the renal system

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2iZwAVv

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