Bordeaux Crudites Bring E. Coli Sleuths Closer to Bug Source
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Crudites eaten at a children’s center in the French city of Bordeaux are helping doctors in their two-month hunt for the source of the world’s deadliest E. coli outbreak.
The bacterium that began sickening thousands of people in Germany in early May is the same as one that gave more than a dozen people bloody diarrhea and kidney failure in southern France last month, a study released on June 30 found. After tracing common food sources, epidemiologists found fenugreek seeds from Egypt could be implicated in both outbreaks, authorities said.