Germany confirmed sprouts is im hemorrhagic e. coli

Posted by Kenny Lee
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Jun 11, 2011
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The German national center for disease control Robert Koch institute and a number of institutions in Berlin 10, said they had confirmed by the bean sprouts is such as bowel hemorrhagic escherichia coli (EHEC) the source of the outbreak. Authorities also announced that raw tomatoes and cucumbers, lettuce is safe. Robert Koch institute director cloth geer that day in Germany disease control, the health and quarantine, etc DuoGe departments jointly said at a news conference, the results based on more than 100 customers in a restaurant followed. They found that these customers in the intestinal infection hemorrhagic escherichia coli patients would eat the food with born sprouts, eat the sprouts at risk is not the edible nine times.

Germany health minister baal and consumer protection department minister on the day of the egg, glad that this progress is good news for consumers. Barr said, you don't have to hold on a previous in northern Germany don't eaten raw tomatoes and cucumbers, lettuce Suggestions.

More and more evidence that lower Saxony, than to a farm bill, tender of the production of the sprouts is the outbreak infection source. The farm has been completely seizure. The agency says, is checking other production farm. Sprouts But so far, investigators have not from any food samples-find pathogens bowel hemorrhagic escherichia coli O104: H4, including in the farm and restaurant, home of the gain of the patients with kitchen samples.

Cloth case, said although the bowel hemorrhagic e. coli outbreak is not over, but new infections have gradually reduce the number of patients. This, he said, is contaminated food consumption has finished's sake.

This round of e. coli outbreak, Germany at the beginning of the health department have doubted the cucumber is produced in Spain epidemic source. European nations to immediately issued a Spanish of vegetables and fruits import ban on Spanish incur the protest strongly. The German government then admit wrong judgment.


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