KC
Moderator
11 July 2006
ECOLI BUG TOLL GOES UP TO 21
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17361346&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=ecoli-bug-toll-goes-up-to-21--name_page.html
THE number of people struck down with the potentially deadly bug E.coli has risen to 21, health chiefs said yesterday.
A five-year-old girl and an 82-year-old woman are among those hit in the West Yorkshire outbreak.
The Health Protection Agency said seven cases were confirmed yesterday. Fourteen people were identified over the weekend with the 0157 strain.
Health chiefs traced the source to Todd's Pork and Beef Butchers in Armley, Leeds. It supplies 18 local butchers, cafes and delis.
The shop was closed yesterday.
Dr Martin Schweiger, of the West Yorkshire Health Protection Unit, said: "I am very concerned that we have not got to the end of the outbreak yet.
"Usually you get one or two, then two or three, but this is ongoing and could get very nasty. In numerical terms it's small-scale but we are dealing with an organism that in other outbreaks has had quite a high death rate."
No one from the shop was available for comment yesterday.
ECOLI BUG TOLL GOES UP TO 21
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17361346&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=ecoli-bug-toll-goes-up-to-21--name_page.html
THE number of people struck down with the potentially deadly bug E.coli has risen to 21, health chiefs said yesterday.
A five-year-old girl and an 82-year-old woman are among those hit in the West Yorkshire outbreak.
The Health Protection Agency said seven cases were confirmed yesterday. Fourteen people were identified over the weekend with the 0157 strain.
Health chiefs traced the source to Todd's Pork and Beef Butchers in Armley, Leeds. It supplies 18 local butchers, cafes and delis.
The shop was closed yesterday.
Dr Martin Schweiger, of the West Yorkshire Health Protection Unit, said: "I am very concerned that we have not got to the end of the outbreak yet.
"Usually you get one or two, then two or three, but this is ongoing and could get very nasty. In numerical terms it's small-scale but we are dealing with an organism that in other outbreaks has had quite a high death rate."
No one from the shop was available for comment yesterday.