Swedish two-year-old dies from E.coli: officials - (The Local/ AFP)
July 8, 2008 – 11:14 pmA two-year-old girl from Stockholm has died after becoming infected with the EHEC bacteria, Dagens Nyheter reports.
The girl fell ill during a visit to Mora in central Sweden last Sunday. She died a few days later. The source of the infection is not yet known.
The story says that Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) is an intestinal bacterium primarily found in the saliva and bodily waste of cattle, sheep and goats but infections can also be transmitted from person to person and via food.
Since children often enjoy stroking animals, they are also more prone to infection, although the two-year-old was not known to have been in recent contact with any animals.
Common symptoms of the diseases caused by EHEC include abdominal cramps and diarrhoea that may in some cases progress to bloody diarrhoea, according to the World Health Organization.
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