date:Apr 06, 2017
e symptoms of an E. coli O157:H7 infection include severe stomach and abdominal cramps and bloody diarrhea. About 5 to 10% of those diagnosed with this STEC infection develop hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), which causes kidney failure.
In this outbreak, nine of 29 people have developed HUS, for a rate of 31%. That very high rate is attributed, in part, to the age of the patients in this outbreak; the median age is 8. Children who are 5 and younger are more likely to develop HUS. The symptoms o