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3 Americans May Be Infected With Potentially-Fatal, Mystery E-coli Strain

3 Americans May Be Infected With Potentially Fatal, Mystery E coli Strain A deadly “mystery strain” of e-coli has already killed 18 people overseas. Now, health officials in the United States say that three Americans may be infected with the same bacteria. AFP reports that these individuals recently traveled to Germany, where the infection has been running rampant:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was awaiting blood samples before any confirmation could be made, spokesman Tom Skinner told AFP. The suspected cases were not fatal.

Earlier, Britain said seven people there had been infected with the bacteria, including three British nationals who had recently traveled to Germany and four German nationals.

Germany does not know where the bacteria originated, though the government has discouraged citizens from consuming raw vegetables. In the past month, alone, 2,000 people have fallen ill.

Treating e-coli is tricky, as studies have shown that antibiotics often cause more complications and, thus, harm infected patients. As a result, doctors in the U.S. and Europe do not use medications to treat the bacteria. CNN has more:

“It seems that antibiotics make the bacteria explode, and the toxins inside get spit out and wreak havoc,” said Dr. Buddy Creech, assistant professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

There’s no other treatment to fight the bacteria.

“All we can do is give patients pain medications or put them on ventilators or dialysis if they need it,” said Dr. Robert Steele, a pediatrician at St. John’s Children’s Hospital in Springfield, Missouri. “We can’t treat the actual problem. We just wait for the body to heal itself.”

Watch a video report from Reuters that explains why the e-coli outbreak has caused Russia to ban vegetables from the EU:

Comments (94)

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  • TRILO
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 8:22pm

    I am wondering why this has been going on for nearly a month, over 2000 people have gotten ill and they do not have any answers. I hate to always think something is up with everything that goes on. I find it hard to believe that they have not been able to isolate the bad food. When there was a problem with eggs, peanut butter and strawberries over the past several years in the US, the source was identified within a week. Now there is a new strain of mutant bacteria and their advice is to not eat any raw vegetable.

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  • Eternal Lucy
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 8:19pm

    I’m sure there are some natural antibacterials that would work better than “antibiotics” anyway. Onions, garlic, turmeric, etc.

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  • Eternal Lucy
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 8:13pm

    Raw vegetables and foods are what we SHOULD be eating more of. It’s all yet another scheme to make us more unwell.

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  • cosmic dogma
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 8:01pm

    E coli is an intestinal organism. One can imagine how it is spread…duh… Wash your hands. Wash your veggies well, and cook well. Only those with poor hygiene pass this, not through kissing, at least one can hope.

    With our new world, it may be here to stay, kind of like bedbugs, only lethal.

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  • lisalake
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 7:47pm

    eat meat!

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  • AKMIIKEUS
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 7:41pm

    Ahhh, another loving Christian spreading the word of hate.
    God Bless You

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    • pwatkins
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 8:50pm

      We may not know where this e-coli bacteria came from, but we do know where most of the hate in America came from, the anarchist that refuse to live among each other with diverse opinions in One Nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.” I am not spreading hate here bc I don‘t need the government telling me what I should or shouldn’t eat. I purchase my own food, cook it, and eat it, so I will decide what, when, and how much I eat, not Michele. It is really stupid for the government to waste that much money telling us what we already know, but most aren’t going to do anyway, when we could be finding answers to where these bacteria are coming from and how to treat them with that 2 million Hate comes within the individual and I hate no one, but hate their ways so if you think you hate me bc I have my own opinion then you must be the one spreading the hate. If you ever need a hand to help make America better, let me know bc I am all for it. God Bless.

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    • drattastic
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:21pm

      I’ve noticed you really have a problem with Christians ,huh. Do you lay awake at night fearful that you may be converted?

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    • teddrunk
      Posted on June 3, 2011 at 8:11am

      You’re kind of a broken record-one trick pony, aren’t you.

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    • OneofMany
      Posted on June 3, 2011 at 5:11pm

      @AKMIIKEUS

      So far all I see is that you are the one with the words of hate in your posts…. you might want to buy a mirror and take a look at yourself before you call others haters. Besides you guys call everything from the right hate and everything from the left tolerance..even though you never tolerate Christians. Interesting isn’t it.

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    • MAProg
      Posted on June 3, 2011 at 11:43pm

      While I may not agree with Akmi’s tactics, I think he is referring to the earlier comments where people were making statements wishing that certain politicians would get infected by this potentially fatal bacteria.

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  • Psychosis
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 7:40pm

    not to worry……………this strain only infects tree huggers, liberals , commies, and californians

    everyone else is a ok

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  • nomercy63
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 7:10pm

    I am sure the government will use this as another excuse to steal our freedoms!!!!

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  • Hickory
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 7:01pm

    So, Moochell is promoting veggies and the rest of the world is not. Hmmmm, seems she is behind the times huh?

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  • Ceefour
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:55pm

    Oh yes,sport, hate is given where hate is due…y”all haven’t seen anything,yet…..

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  • LIBS-ARE-DINGLEHEADS
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:50pm

    @AKMIIKEUS:

    Yeah….like your Leftist commies are gushing with love.

    Spare us. What….did some commie group send your sorry a_s here as punishment to troll?

    Loser…..

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    • Non-sequitur
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 8:06pm

      Are you a Christian?

      Your comments would lead me to believe that you are not, since you don’t seem to have much love for Akmiikeus and a true Christian should love anyone unconditionally.

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  • Tusker
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:48pm

    “The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.” – J. Edgar Hoover

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  • goldmankc
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:42pm

    i’ll lay money that this is manmade, brought to you by your taxpayer funded, government employed, military scientists. gotta test these things before we use them against the enemies of the state donchaknow

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  • Food4Thought
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:40pm

    Wait, let me get my tinfoil hat on….Is it too early to blame the Muslims?

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  • My2
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:36pm

    Wasn’t there a report a few months (6,8 months :) ago that Al Queda had worked on a plan to introduce e coli into food supplies?

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    • USAMEDIC3008
      Posted on June 3, 2011 at 12:39pm

      YES but we were suppose to forget about that.
      Your eyes are getting sleepy Go watch tv that will help

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  • FEDUPPAWPAW
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:32pm

    Hey,I hate these people too,But I don’t want them killed.That’s what elections are for and you make us look like radicals,SORRY! There is not a damn thing funny about this.This is serious!
    No jokes about this ok? This could be our kids.

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  • id-look-fat-in-a-burka
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:30pm

    @AKMIIKEUS
    Not sounding to smart there bud!!

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  • caprica
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:27pm

    first they poison the salad and tomatos……..then the governmet will ask as to take pig vaccine…just as they did 2 years ago…they can kill millions in a few months…..to control the population.
    no one trust the govenment ….they have too much power illigally ! they became a dictators and criminal mafia…

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    • lisalake
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 7:46pm

      gov. induced e-coli — wouldn’t put it past them….

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  • gdbhusker
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:42pm

    I bet the royals in England are throwing a party at this newest “deadly” threat to humankind. They all seem to openly love Eugenics and their “subjects” keep kneeling down to them and giving them the right to wipe us all clean…. Wasn’t it in fact Edward that said..”if reincarnation is really true, I hope to come back as a deadly virus and wipe out as many humans as possible”.? love those environ-nazis!!!!

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  • Bonnieblue2A
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:40pm

    Shouldn’t Big Sis & DHS be banning importation of European produce and placing those coming to the US from Europe in quarantine in the name of National Security?

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    • Tusker
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:47pm

      I don‘t know about you but I’ve noticed that national security is not Napolitano’s area of expertise. I put no faith in Homeland Suckurity.

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  • Bonnieblue2A
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:39pm

    Don’t handle raw veggies unless you grew it yourselves, cook all veggies and produce moving forward, wash your hands and then wash them again. Keep those cooking surfaces clean. Superbugs are leaps and bounds ahead of the medical/pharmacutical industry. Humans will be beaten by these bugs unless we take care.

    One does have to wonder if this came form any of those biological weapons that were sold to Saddam Hussein by the US back in the 1980′s under Reagan. Hope not!

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    • KevINtampa
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:50pm

      Now if we find a ghost to blame for these bugs, the warnings of Yuri Bezmenov will be more accurate than Glenn’s warnings.

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 8:06pm

      Bonnie, your immune system needs to be exposed to germs so it can develop the ability to withstand them. That is why they use the flu to make the vaccination for the flu. Go ahead and get dirty, I‘m not saying you should not wash your hands after using the restroom or that you should prepare your salad in old chicken blood that you didn’t wash off the counter, but too much sterilization leads to getting sicker, not healthier.

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  • JoeAmerica
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:37pm

    Ah, Mother nature has always been the biggest threat to mankind. We waste so much time fighting with each other but Mother nature will one day wipe us out.

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    • Tusker
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:44pm

      She sure is off to a pretty good start this year already!

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    • 1stAmendment
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:30pm

      Al gore thinks he can fight it!
      There’s no need to (global warming is a hoax)!

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    • avenger
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:35pm

      not mother nature, it is all the illigals from africa working in the spanish farms…yes… they too have that problem.o

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  • avenger
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:35pm

    whoa…does big pharma have a solution for this…or is this part of the plan to thin the herd ?

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    • Tusker
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:43pm

      No and probably yes.

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    • Gasparri
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 8:54pm

      I can’t think of anything funny to say.

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    • vennoye
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:07pm

      Big Pharma seems to be pretty helpless when it is something they can’t throw antibiotics at…….

      “It seems that antibiotics make the bacteria explode, and the toxins inside get spit out and wreak havoc,”

      Bet they are all worried over this one…….

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  • AllAmericanGirl22
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:33pm

    Pray that everyone gets better!

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    • 1stAmendment
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:27pm

      God creates the medication before the disease, it just wasn’t discovered yet!
      We need to pray that he should sent it as quick as possible!

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  • Obama Bin Lying
    Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:33pm

    Send them to Washington and have them give Pelosi and Reed a Huge hug

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    • GODSAMERICA
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:36pm

      Don’t do that OBL! Make them give them all a great big sloppy kiss (unfortunately that would kill the sick people quicker than the E. Coli could do it).

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:45pm

      Anyone seen Crass Sunstein lately ? What about the Dr of Death Emmanuel ?
      This seems to be so right up their alley …just sayin :P
      You never know

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:56pm

      though the government has discouraged citizens from consuming raw vegetables.
      —————–
      See kids, salads are bad for you :D

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    • AKMIIKEUS
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:59pm

      Gotta love the Christian Right, so full of hate.

      AKMIIKEUS  
    • JoeAmerica
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:00pm

      @OBAMA BIN LYING,

      I remember a time in the country where what you said would be considered a threat on a public officials life. Boy have times changed.

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:12pm

      Ahh crap.

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    • NSDQ
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:18pm

      And So The Zombie Apocalypse Begins …. o_O

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:25pm

      Oh NOOO, what will this do to Michelles’ Myplate food wheel? CRAP another two million down the tubes. Meat and Ice cream for dinner! yay!

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    • ILUVAMERICA
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:37pm

      Here Comes the PESTILANCE!!!!!!!!!

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    • bjc535
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:46pm

      For some reason i just can’t buy into these stories anymore….maybe real, maybe not, but sure it is way over hyped….h1n1 part 2….maybe they will have a mandatory “vaccine” for ya….

      “you must fear life!!!! ……..but don’t worry someone with power is here to hold your hand and lead you though it”….lol…what ever tired of being treated like a child…. When hospitals over crowding because of it I will know i was wrong…..

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    • Teaparty-grammy
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 6:57pm

      AKMIIKEUS
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 5:59pm
      Gotta love the Christian Right, so full of hate.

      Once again, you liberal pukes are reaching. I don’t recall seeing anything about religion on this post or this news story. If you can’t stay on point with relevent comments, yous hould get the heii off the forum — or are you sto stoopid that you can’t figure out what the news story is about?

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 7:11pm

      All politics aside folks, there have been stories of drug resistant bugs like this appearing over the years in India, the middle east and now Europe; I pray for the families and folks of those who have gotten this for a swift and complete recovery – along with that this does not turn into a super bug that can become a pandemic illness in the foodsources of the world.

      Not likely I will admit, yet it could happen like with the flu epidemics of the ending of WW1 era.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 7:15pm

      @NSDQ:

      I once would have laughed with most others at the mention of a Zombie Apocolypse – and yet now I do see that phrase in a different context; what would it be like in the world if the food supply system we now take for granted collapsed or was severely disrupted due to famine, shortages, disease such as this one or others and combinations of other things happened?

      Someone starving to death is a sight or fate not wished on anyone; so we do need to pray and hope, for the times are now going to get even harder than before.

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 7:27pm

      Snow, now that most people are so germaphobic that they carry around hand sanitizer, bleach their countertops and generally disinfect every thing they might possibly come in contact with some day, the bugs have a much easier time getting in. Our immune systems are like our brains, they learn. When we sanitize everything we touch our immune systems don’t get a chance to get stronger. People get sick alot easier because of the massive effort to never be sick. I grew up in the country and didn’t have very clean living conditions, I almost never get sick and can eat stuff you wouldn’t believe and not get ill. I’m not surprised that people are being killed by all theas “super bugs”. Also the media tries its best to cause a panic. Look at the swine flue, it killed far fewer people then the regular flue strains that go around every year, yet the hype was tremendous.

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    • insight
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 7:44pm

      This may coplicate the SARS, Ebola, Swine flu, Mad Cow diease, and Bird flu that I’m suffering from. Who cares more people will die from an infected hang nail this year.

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    • jzs
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 9:30pm

      Look people, the United States has to save costs and the place to start is these unnecessary Nanny-state agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Center for Disease Control (CSC). The first step toward restoring financial responsibility in our nation, is getting rid of this nonsense that the government has to take care of us, and restore our freedom to the way it was 100 years ago.

      All you RINOs are so scared of what would happen were it not for the excessive regulations the FDA imposes and the absurd monitoring of some insignificant bacterium that has caused, what?, a few deaths? Corporate America is better able to handle these minor problems more than a bloated government. They know that if they sell food that kills people eventually you’ll stop buying food from those corporations and the foods the sell, which is clearly marked on the label.

      Stop the nanny state! These regulations stifle American profitability and the monitoring of the spread of disease is, given the cost to our children and grandchildren, is worthless. I will not give up my freedom to government bureaucrats.

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    • JRook
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 10:49pm

      Two best hand and skin sanitizers available are 4Hour Protection and MicroArmor. Both are far superior to the alcohol gel junk sold in most stores and provide long lasting protection for E Coli and 100s of other bacteria and viruses. Either should be a part of your survival kit.

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    • MAProg
      Posted on June 3, 2011 at 11:39pm

      @Grammy: I think the point is that the comments on here can get pretty nasty, yet most of you claim to be God-fearing Christians. While religion isn’t overtly being discussed, it’s a fair topic to bring up when someone basically says they wish people whom they disagree with would be infected with a potentially fatal strain of bacteria.

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