“Doctors no longer have much hope of saving her kidneys…” Seven-year-old Elisa is at risk of an organ transplant after eating Morbier with raw milk and contracting E. coli, her father told Le Parisien newspaper on Friday. (E. Koli). In rare cases, such as in a little girl, these bacteria can cause “hemolytic uremic syndrome” (HUS). A total of 11 children with HUS, including five from one kindergarten, were infected with the same epidemic strain late last year, France’s public health service said.
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On average, more than a hundred children are affected each year, and this number has been increasing since monitoring began thirty years ago. The year 2022, marked by several collective infections from industrial pizzerias, was a record year with 253 cases reported. Rémi Salomon, head of the Department of Pediatric Nephrology at Necker Hospital (AP-HP), explains to us in particular how these serious problems manifest themselves.
Source: Le Parisien
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