Highlights Read the Advice to Consumers » A total of 15 persons infected with the outbreak strain of STEC O145 infection have been identified in 6 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (2), California (1), Florida (1), Georgia (5), Louisiana (5), and Tennessee (1).

Four Longford children have been hospitalized after a recent outbreak of E. coli in two Co Longford creches.

On June 4, 2012, Brian Supalla, health program manager at Yavapai County Community Health Services went before the supervisor-types to discuss plans to introduce the 2009 FDA Food Code to the area.

An inadequate standard of hand hygiene is the most likely reason for the spread of E. coli at a nursery in Aberdeenshire, say health experts. Three babies were taken to the hospital in Aberdeen following the outbreak at Rose Lodge Nursery in Aboyne last month. In total, there were seven confirmed cases of the illness stemming from the Deeside nursery.