7 now sick with E. coli at Portland preschool quoting : 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.

Seven people at Portland Montessori school sickened with E. coli

Six students and one adult have now been sickened with E. coli bacteria at Portland's Montessori of Alameda School. Healthy SoyNut Butter outbreak. Sixteen people have been sickened with E. coli from the SoyNut Butter outbreak nationwide. The Multnomah County Healthy Department has been investigating diarrhea illnesses at the school since last Tuesday. Four have confirmed E. coli, two of which have been genetically matched with the national I.M.


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