7 now sick with E. coli at Portland preschool stat : KOIN

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Six children and an adult are now sick with E. coli at the Montessori of Alameda preschool in Portland. "This is a nasty bacteria, it can make you very sick and it's easily spread from person to person," Lewis said. Chris Duillet just found out his 2-year-old son is one of the children who contracted E. coli. It's the most severe type of Shiga Toxin E. coli. Multnomah County Health Officer Paul Lewis told KOIN 6 News last week that this is the "bad kind" of E coli.




An E. coli outbreak at a Northeast Portland school has now sickened seven people, health officials said Wednesday. The county announced the school outbreak last week, saying four people were sick and that two others were being tested. Six of the sick people are children, and one is an adult, according to Multnomah County Health officials. Multnomah County Health officials said Tuesday the cases are part of a nationwide outbreak of E. coli linked to a soy nut butter. She said one of the seven sick people has been hospitalized.


E. coli outbreak grows at Portland preschoolIn an update on the E. coli outbreak at the Montessori of Alameda school in Portland, The Multnomah County Health Department said Wednesday that seven people have now been sickened by Escherichia coli bacteria at the school, six children and one adult. Healthy SoyNut Butter outbreak. Four of the people are confirmed to have E. coli, O157:H7 and two of these cases genetically match the E. coli strain from the national I.M. The Health Department is investigating how the SoyNut Butter E. coli strain was introduced into Montessori of Alameda. Last week, The Oregon Health Authority has verified that two confirmed cases of E. coli O157 infection in Clackamas County siblings are part of a national outbreak.


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