What salad vegetable was initially at the centre of international debate, notably between Spain and Germany, after a fatal E.coli outbreak in May 2011 in the latter nation?
2011 Germany E. coli O104:H4 outbreak or France. Confirmed cases are listed below according to their location when diagnosed. The investigation into the cause of the outbreak officially began with the notification of the Robert Koch Institute on May 19th concerning three cases of HUS in children in Hamburg. On 26 May, German health officials hastily and prematurely announced that cucumbers from Spain were identified as a source of the "E. coli" outbreak in Germany, when in fact the source were Egyptian sprouts. On 27 May 2011, German officials issued an alert distributed to nearby countries, identifying organic cucumbers from Spain and withdrawing them from the
2011 Germany E. coli O104:H4 outbreak 2011 Germany E. coli O104:H4 outbreak A novel strain of bacteria caused a serious outbreak of foodborne illness focused in northern Germany in May through June 2011. The illness was characterized by bloody diarrhea, with a high frequency of serious complications, including hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), a condition that requires urgent treatment. The outbreak was originally thought to have been caused by an enterohemorrhagic (EHEC) strain of "E. coli", but it was later shown to have been caused by an enteroaggregative "E. coli" (EAEC) strain that had acquired the genes to produce Shiga toxins, present in organic fenugreek sprouts. Epidemiological fieldwork