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Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough E. coli
O157:H7 Outbreak Expands to 74 Ill in 32 States Source of
Article: http://www.marlerblog.com/ I spent the morning on the
phone with two young fathers whose children are both victims of Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome caused by E. coli O157:H7 that has been linked by
the CDC to Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough. One child, an 8-year-old
from Michigan has been hospitalized for nearly a week and has received at
least one blood transfusion. The other child is a 4-year-old from South
Carolina. She was recently released from an Atlanta Rehab center after
three and a half weeks. This is on top of nearly two months in the
hospital, weeks on dialysis and suffering from a stroke. I also followed up with a
Nevada woman, who too has been linked to the outbreak, and who is still
hospitalized after over two months in the hospital. She has suffered
the removal of a portion of her large intestine and was on dialysis until the
last few days. A week ago she was just learning how to walk again.
E. coli O157:H7 is a very, very nasty bug. The new CDC numbers also
came out today: * 74 cases from 32 states -
all match by PFGE testing * Onset ranges from March
16 to June 11 * 72% female, age range
2-65 years (median age 15) * 34 Hospitalizations * 10 with Hemolytic Uremic
Syndrome (HUS) |
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