German school closed for EHEC infections

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Paderborn - the data from primary school in Ehec Altenbeken in Paderborn district will remain closed at least a week. This decision was made by the local authorities on Monday in consultation with the Robert Koch Institute and the competent national authorities. As a spokesman for the group told in this way, the incubation time to wait.




At the school, located in mid-June had three boys, ages eight to eleven years are infected with intestinal germ of the aggressive strain O104 and the perilous HU syndrome were ill.
After three employees were also detected in the food service at school and at an employee a caterer in a first test Ehec bacteria, the authorities decided on Monday that the school was closed. This precautionary measure is also in view of the concerns...


http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/gesellschaft/0,1518,770920,00.html

 

[Pathfinder]

Re: German school closed for EHEC infections

UPDATE 1-Germany shuts school over E.coli scare

Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:00pm EDT

* School shut for a week after students f all ill
* Sweden detects case, victim had not been to Germany

(Adds case in Sweden)

BERLIN, June 28 (Reuters) - German officials closed a primary school in the west of the country on Tuesday after students fell ill with the rare strain of E.coli responsible for an outbreak that has killed 48 people.
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"It could be quite possible that the children were infected from contaminated food," county health chief Georg Alles said, adding the germ could also have been spread by people who failed to wash their hands after using the toilet.

Three male students have been infected with the germ, which sticks to intestinal walls and pumps out toxins, sometimes causing severe bloody diarrhoea and kidney problems.

Four workers who prepare food for the students at the school appeared to have been infected and are undergoing further testing, the county said.

Full text:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/28/germany-ecoli-idUSLDE75R1NQ20110628

 

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EHEC: Mass test for EHEC in Paderborn


After a school in Altenbeken, a butcher and a catering operation, the doors closed because of EHEC infections, is now due for mass examination in order to prevent further infections. 1,000 people from the Paderborn district must now provide a stool sample available, which is tested for contamination with EHEC. 500 children from 25 schools and kindergartens, and 300 seniors and 126 employees of food banks will be asked to get tested. The way of the EHEC bacterium might trace. The contaminated Egyptian fenugreek seeds landed in the shoot operation in Bienenb?ttel. From there, the spread of EHEC bacteria including up to a butcher who supplies a catering company, which in turn #

http://www.cecu.de/gesundheit-nachrichten+M58a2eaf63d8.html

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

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500 children tested for EHEC


Interesting: they found 14 children infected with EHEC, they displayed no symptoms.

More testing is being done.

500 Kinder in Altenbeken auf Ehec getestet


Paderborn (gl) - In einer Altenbekener Grundschule sind weitere 14 Kinder mit dem EHEC-Erreger infiziert. Das Paderborner Kreisgesundheitsamt hatte weitere 30 Kinder getestet, die in der Schule das Mittagessen einnehmen. Nun sollen in einem Massentest weitere 500 Personen untersucht werden.
Die 14 Sch?ler, bei denen das Ehec-Bakterium jetzt nachgewiesen werden konnte, zeigen jedoch keine Symptome, teilt die Kreis Paderborn mit. Nach Auskunft des Robert-Koch-Instituts in Berlin ist das nicht ungew?hnlich. Der potenziell gef?hrliche EHEC-Erreger O 104: H4 sei von seiner Zusammensetzung her neu und zeige eindeutig Pr?ferenz f?r Erwachsene.

?bersetzt hei?t das: Kinder k?nnen somit mit EHEC infiziert sein und trotzdem gesund bleiben oder nur leichte Beschwerden entwickeln. Auch wenn die Kinder gesund sind, d?rfen sie nicht zur Schule, da sie Ausscheider sind. Das hei?t: Sie tragen das Bakterium in sich und k?nnen durch Schmierinfektion andere damit anstecken.

Die Glocke

 

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Re: German school closed for EHEC infections

Paderborn. The good news first: One of three children diagnosed with EHEC Altenbeken primary school is back home. Overall, now found in 18 of 30 all-day school children of potentially dangerous subtype of the virus. Five stool samples were negative in seven, the results still pending. Of the 175 adults working in the food service for the first 19 samples were negative. Monday starts the test mass: Nearly 1,000 fecal samples are examined.
A 'Riesenkraftakt' is the organization for the stool analysis of 500 school and kindergarten children, 300 seniors and 175 issuers and food, says Michaela Pitz, spokeswoman for the district Paderborn. Is examined wherever Lippspringe the caterer has supplied. First, kindergartens and schools your turn, their representatives are informed in the Ministry of Health. The facilities are the small clear test tube directly distributed to the parents, together with a questionnaire on food intake. In a stamped envelope to the parents to send stool samples of their child then himself directly to the laboratory.


http://www.nw-news.de/lokale_news/paderborn/paderborn/4675265_EHEC_auf_der_Spur.html

 

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EHEC is still not out of the subjects of media coverage. In recent weeks, other people suffering from the dangerous pathogens. Last even schools and nurseries were closed. Today there will be a mass EHEC testing. Causes have that the authorities in the Paderborn district. Reason for this test are the three EHEC disease in an elementary school.

Faecal samples will be 800 clients a catering company. In addition to the underlying 500 pupils and children from kindergartens, and 300 seniors from the EHEC investigations are concerned. Employees employed at the food issue in the facilities are subject, also in the investigations. In mid-June, three students at the dangerous HUS (hemolytic-uremic syndrome) who is ill, who are in a primary school which is supplied by the catering company.

http://www.prenio.de/800-menschen-werden-auf-ehec-untersucht-14243-07

 

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No further EHEC disease - New tests in schools and kindergartens

Paderborn - Over the weekend, reported no new EHEC or HUS disorders. The last two cases were the Paderborn district health office on the second last weekend in June has been reported.
On Monday representatives of the kindergartens and schools in the district health office on the handling of stool samples to be informed rolls. Together with the questionnaires, the material on the then 25 kindergartens and schools to the parents of 500 children will be distributed, which have in the school or kindergarten lunch.



_____ Will then have to hand in a second step, about the 300 seniors a stool sample, have moved into the "meals on wheels" by the caterer from Bad Lippspringe. The order was determined in consultation with the Robert Koch Institute. The stool samples are used primarily to clarify the eruption event. The test results should shed light on how the pathogen could spread. The Paderborn district health office were reported at the weekend other intestinal infections are attributable to other pathogens. But on the weekend 15 people suffering from a bacterium called "Campylobacter".


http://www.paderborner-blatt.de/reg...ungen-neue-tests-in-schulen-und-kindergaerten