The E.coli bacterium at the origin of the hospitalizations in Bordeaux is of the same strain as that which caused about thirty deaths in Germany, announced Friday the Regional Health Agency-Aquitaine.

In total, ten cases were detected and seven people were still hospitalized on Friday, said at a press conference Dr. Joao Simoes, head of the alert and health management cell at the ARS.

"Seven of the eight people went to a fair"

Sprouted seeds, and not chopped steaks, are at the origin of food poisoning in Bordeaux, added the health authorities: “The results of the epidemiological investigations carried out have made it possible to determine that 7 of the eight people attended the Center de Early childhood recreation in Bègles, as part of an end-of-year fair on June 8, ”said Anne Baron, deputy director general of ARS in the region last night.

At least six of them would have consumed sprouted seeds, sprinkled on soups, according to the same source.

Symptoms appeared between June 15 and June 21.

Two people left the hospital

Two people, a 42-year-old man and a 67-year-old woman, were discharged from hospital on Friday. In addition to the five people whose hospital stays have been extended, two other patients - adults - suffering from bloody diarrhea, said Dr Simoes. Like three other people, they suffer from “hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)”, a food poisoning that affects kidney function with varying degrees of severity.

These five patients, one of whom has a "serious but sandy" condition, are treated at the CHU Pellegrin in Bordeaux. The other two were admitted to the Robert Picqué military hospital. The first examinations made it possible to determine the presence for two patients of an infection by E.coli of a strain identical to that which prevailed in Germany, explained Patrick Rolland, head of the cell of the institute of sanitary watch in Aquitaine. .

In Germany, it was also germinated seeds, produced on an organic farm in the Land of Lower Saxony, which caused the epidemic caused by the bacterium Escherichia coli which affected more than 3,200 people and killed 36 people in Germany and one in Sweden.

The Secretary of State for Commerce Frédéric Lefebvre has also accused the seeds of the British Thompson & Morgan of being at the origin of the phenomenon.

  • Bordeaux

  • Contamination

  • Food poisoning

  • E.coli bacteria