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Officials have not yet traced the source of the outbreak of STEC in the UK. ***Officials are hunting for a mystery food item behind an outbreak of E.coli which has struck down 113 people and left at least 37 in hospital — with fears the bug could spread further during barbecue season.
There is currently no evidence the new E.coli outbreak is related to the one recorded at the end of last year that was linked to cheese. He was admitted to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother hospital in Margate, Kent, with diarrhoea, vomiting and stomach cramps. She added doctors are hoping to discharge her father in the coming days, once the infection has passed.
'What people can do is make sure they’re very vigilant about hand-washing and follow advice from food standard agencies about keeping their food safe and keeping good hygiene in the kitchen. ‘We have infections across all four nations which suggests it is something that is nationally distributed.’ Two-thirds of those known to have been infected by the bacteria in England have become so severely ill they needed hospital care.UKHSA said a total of 113 cases have been logged between May 25 and June 4 but more are expected.Just one case has been recorded in Northern Ireland though officials say this individual likely caught the bug in England.
Professor Nicola Holden, a bacteriologist and a member of Applied Microbiology International’s Food Security Advisory Group, said: 'STEC has been with us since the 1980s. 'Sometimes that makes it difficult to detect pathogens from surveillance efforts that may have the potential to cause disease, because their genetics don’t always follow a predictable pattern that definitively identify them as such.
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