UK – Third Dorset child hospitalised with E. coli O55 infection

BBC News

A third child is being treated in hospital for serious kidney problems following an E. coli infection in Dorset.

Public Health England (PHE) said tests had shown it was the same strain of E. coli O55 that had affected 26 other people in the county.

In May, two children were also admitted to hospital with haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS), the most common cause of acute kidney injury in children .

No common source has been identified.

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