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New E.coli outbreak

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Six children are in a serious condition in France with E.coli infections after eating meat thought to have come from Germany, where an outbreak of the bacteria has killed 37 people.

The children had eaten beefburgers made by French company SEB which said the meat was taken from animals slaughtered in three European countries and processed in France.

“There’s meat from Germany, there’s meat from Belgium and from Holland,” said SEB chief executive Guy Lamorlette.

Six children, aged between 20 months and eight years old, were taken to a hospital in Lille, northern France on Wednesday and one child was later released.

E.coli bacteria

E.coli bacteria

A seventh child was taken to hospital on Thursday.

A spokesman for the Regional Health Agency (ARS) said: “They are in a serious but not worrying state. Their lives are not at all in danger.”


The “Steak Country” burgers were bought in French branches of German supermarket Lidl.

SEB has recalled the burgers and Lidl said it had removed boxes from its shelves in France.

The outbreak comes on the heels of E.coli cases linked to contaminated bean sprouts which has killed 36 people in Germany and one in Sweden and sickened 3,300 people in 16 countries.

However, health authorities said they had not found a link at present with the previous cases.

Russia bans Euro veg in E.coli outbreak

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Russia today banned all vegetable imports from the EU in an attempt to prevent the European E.coli outbreak that has killed 17 people crossing its border.

Researchers are still unable to pinpoint the cause of the outbreak that has hit Germany and other European nations, which has infected 1,500 people.

Lyubov Voropayeva, spokeswoman for the Russian Agency for the Supervision of Consumer Rights, said that the ban has been imposed immediately for no definite period of time.

The agency’s chief Gennady Onishchenko told Russian news agencies that this ‘unpopular measure’ would be in place until European officials inform Moscow of the cause of the disease and how it is being spread.

‘How many more lives of European citizens does it take for European officials to tackle this problem?’ he told the state-owned RIA Novosti news agency.

E.coli bacteria

E.coli bacteria

Russia banned fresh imports from Spain and Germany on Monday, warning of a possible spread of the sanction. No fatalities or infections have yet been reported in the country.

The outbreak has hit at least nine European countries, but nearly all the sick people either live in Germany or recently traveled there.

Two people who were sickened are now in the United States, and both had recently traveled to Hamburg, Germany, where many of the infections occurred.


Medical authorities appeared late Wednesday no closer to discovering the source of the infection.

Germany’s national health agency said that more than 1,530 people there had been sickened by the dangerous E. coli germ, including 470 suffering from a kidney failure complication that was previously considered extremely rare.

The outbreak is already considered the third-largest involving E. coli in recent world history, and it may be the deadliest.

Twelve people died in a 1996 Japanese outbreak that reportedly sickened more than 12,000, and seven died in a 2000 Canadian outbreak.