Two more cases in E.coli outbreak
Press Association
Friday May 19, 2006 4:23 PM
Two more adults were confirmed as the latest victims of an E.coli O157 virus connected to a nursery, health chiefs said.
This brings the number of confirmed cases linked to the Careshare Nursery in Dunfermline, Fife, to 11 - three adults and eight children.
The two adults, who remain well, are thought to have close links with children being treated in Glasgow's Yorkhill hospital for renal failure after contracting the potential deadly strain of the bug.
Of the four children, all of whom attended Careshare's nursery within the grounds of Lauder College in Dunfermline, two are said to be improving and two are described as stable. They were all diagnosed last week. A fifth child was released from hospital on Monday.
Dr Neil Hamlet, consultant in public health medicine at NHS Fife, said the diagnoses of the two adults was "not unexpected" given they had links to the ill children.
He said: "There has been an increase to 11 people confirmed as being cases in the E.coli O157 outbreak linked to the Careshare Nursery, Lauder, in Dunfermline.
"Of the four children being treated at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow for haemolytic uraemic syndrome, two are reported as improving and two remain stable. There have been no further hospital admissions related to this outbreak since May 12."
The number of possible cases has dropped to 22 as a result of ongoing investigations by NHS Fife.
NHS Grampian is also investigating two possible cases at a nursery in Insch, Aberdeenshire, though they are not thought to be connected.
In 1996, the O157 strain of the bug killed 21 elderly people in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, during the world's worst-recorded instance of E.coli poisoning.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-5832561,00.html
Press Association
Friday May 19, 2006 4:23 PM
Two more adults were confirmed as the latest victims of an E.coli O157 virus connected to a nursery, health chiefs said.
This brings the number of confirmed cases linked to the Careshare Nursery in Dunfermline, Fife, to 11 - three adults and eight children.
The two adults, who remain well, are thought to have close links with children being treated in Glasgow's Yorkhill hospital for renal failure after contracting the potential deadly strain of the bug.
Of the four children, all of whom attended Careshare's nursery within the grounds of Lauder College in Dunfermline, two are said to be improving and two are described as stable. They were all diagnosed last week. A fifth child was released from hospital on Monday.
Dr Neil Hamlet, consultant in public health medicine at NHS Fife, said the diagnoses of the two adults was "not unexpected" given they had links to the ill children.
He said: "There has been an increase to 11 people confirmed as being cases in the E.coli O157 outbreak linked to the Careshare Nursery, Lauder, in Dunfermline.
"Of the four children being treated at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow for haemolytic uraemic syndrome, two are reported as improving and two remain stable. There have been no further hospital admissions related to this outbreak since May 12."
The number of possible cases has dropped to 22 as a result of ongoing investigations by NHS Fife.
NHS Grampian is also investigating two possible cases at a nursery in Insch, Aberdeenshire, though they are not thought to be connected.
In 1996, the O157 strain of the bug killed 21 elderly people in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, during the world's worst-recorded instance of E.coli poisoning.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-5832561,00.html