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Police are looking for EHEC Source
Hamburg. It's a race against time. In light of currently more than 2000 cases of EHEC in Germany, the experts focus primarily on the search for the still mysterious source of the virus. On Friday, compacted the evidence that actually raw tomatoes, cucumbers and salad are winners of the diarrheal pathogen.
I In a survey of EHEC patients found that 84 percent of the patients had previously eaten salad, said the Berlin-based Robert Koch Institute. In a comparison group of healthy people there were only 47 percent. Similar is the distribution for the other two products - EHEC patients had significantly more tomatoes and cucumbers consumed.
Also at the Hamburg Institute for Hygiene and Environment are currently being analyzed mainly tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce. To date, the aggressive pathogen EHEC O104 type: H4 are not detected in spite of the daily up to 80 samples. Also why the search was now on salad dressings and salad herbs have been extended, said an institute spokeswoman.
The former health senator and current CDU parliamentary leader in the citizenry, Dietrich Wersich asked, in view of the unsuccessful search for the EHEC-source use by police: 'Are the health authorities obviously overwhelmed because of the large number of cases', Wersich told the Evening Journal. The police can use your expertise 'in the hunt for the bacteria' help. The officials should ask the patients according to what they eat when and what food they have bought out.
'So a profile can be created that helps to clarify where the infection was, "said the CDU politician. As evident in Hamburg are the focus of the disease, the Republic look to the city. He saw the use of the police by the law to protect public safety and order, covered, Wersich.
Klaus-Dieter Zastrow, senior consultant for Hygiene at the Vivantes clinics in Berlin, pointed to the possibility that the germ was knowingly brought by people to food. Zastrow: "We had that cases in which people such as the mayonnaise in supermarkets poisoned."
The microbiologist holds Stefan Zimmermann of the University of Heidelberg, but for 'very difficult' to produce a seed, such as O104 in the lab, as he 'Spiegel Online' said.
Meanwhile, the number of new infections continues to rise. In Hamburg alone, which is another focus of the epidemic, there are now 751 EHEC cases - including 144 life-threatening hemolytic-uremic syndrome with the (HUS).
http://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article1912825/CDU-Polizei-muss-nach-EHEC-Quelle-suchen.html
Hamburg. It's a race against time. In light of currently more than 2000 cases of EHEC in Germany, the experts focus primarily on the search for the still mysterious source of the virus. On Friday, compacted the evidence that actually raw tomatoes, cucumbers and salad are winners of the diarrheal pathogen.
I In a survey of EHEC patients found that 84 percent of the patients had previously eaten salad, said the Berlin-based Robert Koch Institute. In a comparison group of healthy people there were only 47 percent. Similar is the distribution for the other two products - EHEC patients had significantly more tomatoes and cucumbers consumed.
Also at the Hamburg Institute for Hygiene and Environment are currently being analyzed mainly tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce. To date, the aggressive pathogen EHEC O104 type: H4 are not detected in spite of the daily up to 80 samples. Also why the search was now on salad dressings and salad herbs have been extended, said an institute spokeswoman.
The former health senator and current CDU parliamentary leader in the citizenry, Dietrich Wersich asked, in view of the unsuccessful search for the EHEC-source use by police: 'Are the health authorities obviously overwhelmed because of the large number of cases', Wersich told the Evening Journal. The police can use your expertise 'in the hunt for the bacteria' help. The officials should ask the patients according to what they eat when and what food they have bought out.
'So a profile can be created that helps to clarify where the infection was, "said the CDU politician. As evident in Hamburg are the focus of the disease, the Republic look to the city. He saw the use of the police by the law to protect public safety and order, covered, Wersich.
Klaus-Dieter Zastrow, senior consultant for Hygiene at the Vivantes clinics in Berlin, pointed to the possibility that the germ was knowingly brought by people to food. Zastrow: "We had that cases in which people such as the mayonnaise in supermarkets poisoned."
The microbiologist holds Stefan Zimmermann of the University of Heidelberg, but for 'very difficult' to produce a seed, such as O104 in the lab, as he 'Spiegel Online' said.
Meanwhile, the number of new infections continues to rise. In Hamburg alone, which is another focus of the epidemic, there are now 751 EHEC cases - including 144 life-threatening hemolytic-uremic syndrome with the (HUS).
http://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article1912825/CDU-Polizei-muss-nach-EHEC-Quelle-suchen.html