Four new EHEC illnesses have occurred in Hamburg. Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) had been found in an 11 boy and a 3-year old kindergarten child. Also two women aged 68 and 88 in the borough Altona were diagnosed early last week with the same organism.
The two infected children are from Blankenese and were taken ill last week. The boy may have visited also the same school as a six-year girl who had died about two weeks ago.
EHEC serotype O157 was isolated from the girl that had died.
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