Europe is currently facing outbreaks of E coli bacteria that makes the pain more than 1,600 people in Germany and killed 18 people. World Health Organization said the outbreak of this pathogen is a new strain that has never been known by scientists.According to the Beijing Genomics Institute, China in collaboration with German scientists, a strain of E coli is a type of deadly and highly contagious. "This is a unique strain that has never been isolated from patients before," said Hilde Kruse, food safety experts from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Initial studies of the genetic analysis showed that this bacterial strain is a mutant form of the two bacteria Escherichia coli, enteroaggregative E coli (EAEC) and enterohemorrhagic E coli (EHEC). If the bacteria are joined, it would be dangerous to humans."One of the bacteria will take up toxic substances from other bacteria produce toxins and are more dangerous because it causes severe diarrhea, even damage tissue, including kidney," said Dr Paul Wigley, a biologist from the University of Liverpool, as reported by the BBC.Cases of E coli outbreak has led to kidney failure is rare and life-threatening. E coli infection is actually a normal life-threatening as well, but generally only in the group of infants and children and people of low body resistance.In the case of Europe's most casualties are women and adolescents. The German government found 470 cases of renal complications. This outbreak is feared more casualties because until now can not ascertain the source of transmission of the disease.The incubation period of disease was three to eight days. E coli bacteria found in feces and can spread if a person has less clean living habits, such as not washing hands with soap.Preconception of the outbreak is due to raw vegetables contaminated E coli. Several studies conducted in Europe also showed a strong association between symptoms of the disease and the consumption of raw vegetables.WHO said the cases because of E coli have been reported in nine European countries, including Austria, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and England. The majority of cases of people in Germany or the people who've been traveling to northern Germany.E coli outbreak that occurred in Europe this is the third largest and most events causing fatalities. Previously reported two deaths in the outbreak in Japan in 1996 and made 9,000 people sick. Meanwhile, in 2000 in Canada reported seven people died from E coli outbreak.
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