E. coli scare shuts German school
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June 29, 2011, Wednesday
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GERMAN officials closed a primary school in the west of the country yesterday after a number of students fell ill with the rare strain of E.coli responsible for an outbreak that has killed 48 people.
The school in the town of Altenbeken will be shut for a week, about the length of the E.coli incubation period, to prevent a possible spread of the bacteria, local officials said.
So far more than 4,000 people in Europe and North America have been sickened by the bacteria, with all the cases so far traced to travel in, or produce from, northern Germany. The rate of infection has slowed considerably since its climax in May.
This comes as Russia is ending a blanket ban on vegetable imports from the European Union put in place over fears of E. coli infection, starting with the Netherlands and Belgium, the Russian consumer protection agency said yesterday.
Shipments were allowed to resume yesterday. Russia and the EU have reached agreement on safety certification, and agency chief Gennady Onishchenko said that every shipment of vegetables must be accompanied by an individual certificates guaranteeing its safety.
Onishchenko said that Netherlands and Belgium were the first to be allowed to restart shipments because no cases of infection have been found among their residents and Russia trusts their labs.
Meanwhile, three male students have been infected with the germ at the German school. Another four workers who prepare food at the school appear to have been infected, local authority said.
The school in the town of Altenbeken will be shut for a week, about the length of the E.coli incubation period, to prevent a possible spread of the bacteria, local officials said.
So far more than 4,000 people in Europe and North America have been sickened by the bacteria, with all the cases so far traced to travel in, or produce from, northern Germany. The rate of infection has slowed considerably since its climax in May.
This comes as Russia is ending a blanket ban on vegetable imports from the European Union put in place over fears of E. coli infection, starting with the Netherlands and Belgium, the Russian consumer protection agency said yesterday.
Shipments were allowed to resume yesterday. Russia and the EU have reached agreement on safety certification, and agency chief Gennady Onishchenko said that every shipment of vegetables must be accompanied by an individual certificates guaranteeing its safety.
Onishchenko said that Netherlands and Belgium were the first to be allowed to restart shipments because no cases of infection have been found among their residents and Russia trusts their labs.
Meanwhile, three male students have been infected with the germ at the German school. Another four workers who prepare food at the school appear to have been infected, local authority said.
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