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BREAKING NEWS E. coli outbreak linked to tainted salad claims a life, health chiefs confirm READ MORE: Listeria: the little-known signs of poisoning amid ice cream alert By John Ely Deputy Health Editor For Mailonline Published: 14:29, 27 June 2024 | Updated: 15:09, 27 June 2024 e-mail 9 shares 37 View comments One person is suspected of dying from the E. coli outbreak linked to tainted salad leaves, health officials have said.
No details have been released on the age or location of the victim with health chiefs only stating they had an underlying medical condition and that they died last month. The update, from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), also reported that as of 25 June a further 19 cases infection of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) have been confirmed.
This takes the total number of cases to 275, with about half of known cases needed to hospital care as a result of their infection. Food safety chiefs have said they are 'confident' an Apollo type lettuce has caused the outbreak of the diarrhoea-causing bug. Efforts to confirm the root cause, however, are ongoing The infection has hospitalised 122 and to date seven cases of the severe haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS), a medical emergency linked to STEC which can lead to kidney failure and death have been reported.
Another death among STEC patients was also recorded by health officials but they said, based on medical data, this isn't believed to have been caused by the infection. UKHSA said that although the .
