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CRISIS ALERT: E. coli outbreak: Germany appeals for blood donors

E. coli outbreak: Germany appeals for blood donors

03 June 11 20:02 ET

E. coli culture from a German patient, 2 Jun 11

German clinics have appealed for blood donations as the number of people infected with a deadly strain of E. coli has reached 1,836 globally.

Nearly 200 new cases have been reported in two days in Germany, which has seen the most infections. The bug has killed 17 people in Germany and one in Sweden.

German scientists say the new E. coli strain's genes have been decoded. It is a new hybrid form toxic to humans.

Germans are still being advised not to eat raw vegetables.

'Poison'

Most cases are in northern Germany, including Hamburg. In severe cases, doctors have to perform blood transfusions.

Lutz Schmidt, medical chief of the Hamburg blood donation service, said: "We need blood, plasma too. The stocks need to be replenished."

He told the newspaper Die Welt that in Hamburg ,many donors had responded to the Eppendorf University Clinic's appeal for blood.

E. coli is a bacterium that usually inhabits the guts of cattle and sheep and is mostly harmless.

Some strains, such as Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), can cause diarrhoea, severe stomach cramps and fever, though most sufferers recover within days.

However, a small number of patients develop the potentially deadly haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS), which attacks the kidneys and nervous system.

The bacterium sticks to the intestine walls, pumping out toxins.

In all, 1,213 EHEC cases and 520 HUS cases have now been reported in Germany, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

It adds that 553 cases of HUS and 1,283 cases of EHEC have been detected globally.

In Britain, health officials have announced four more EHEC cases, bringing the total number to 11. All patients have recently travelled to Germany.

Russia - the EU's largest export market for vegetables - has rejected pleas from Brussels to drop its ban on the import of fresh vegetables.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday the ban may go against "the spirit of the WTO... but cucumbers that people die after eating really stink".

"We cannot poison our people for the sake of some spirit," he added.

Anger in Spain

The new E. coli strain is believed to have spread via contaminated raw cucumbers or tomatoes.

European health authorities are urgently trying to pinpoint the source of this epidemic.

Cases of HUS have also been reported in Denmark, the Netherlands and Spain. Seven people in the UK have the infection, though all are thought to have contracted it in Germany.

Two people in the US, who travelled recently to Germany, have tested positive for HUS, said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Spain says it will seek damages from Germany over initial claims that its produce was the source of the outbreak.

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said he would demand reparations for the economic losses suffered.

Germany had blamed Spanish cucumbers but has since accepted it was not the case.

Spanish fruit and vegetable exporters estimate they are losing 200m euros ($290m; £177m) a week in sales.

Sales of Spanish produce to supermarkets across Europe - not just of cucumbers, but of everything - have ground to a halt, says the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Almeria, Spain's so-called fruitbasket.

Tens of thousands of kilos of fresh fruit and vegetables grown in Spain are being destroyed, she adds.

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Comment by valerie eggers on June 4, 2011 at 1:25pm: Wow Teresa!

You seem to be well educated about what is happening. I get a hard time because of my own harping on issues at hand with my family. Very few people WANT to know the scary scenario we are now part of. I have heard Agenda 21 mentioned on a little local conservative talk-radio station here. My general impression was that it's designed to eliminate people due to "over" population. It's the green freaks again. I will Google/Bing Henry Lamb. Thanks for the heads up!

Comment by Teresa Smith on June 4, 2011 at 12:46pm: Valerie, Please read on line sustainable development, Bush #1 in 1992 signed it. He was the first to say New World order. Check out Henry Lamb I get all his info he has been fighting Agenda 21 for many years and know so much. He is teaching towns not to take the ICLE money, each town is taking it and must go by the United Nations rules then. They are sneaking into our towns in many ways, you need to go to town meetings and see if they took the money. Many towns did. There is a lot to know but believe me you need to know. Do some homework. I do not know if any of you live in Gated Communities but they are the root of all evil. Their laws and what they tell you that you can and can not do. My friend in S. Florida can not have a small garden. This gated comm thing was done not for safety but to see how far people would go, much like the TSA for protectioin. What the American people would go for as far as safety, would we give up our rights in our own home and land? The answer is YES they tell you what to plant, what size dog you can have even what plants to plant on you landscaping and the color of your home. Yes You will let the TSA grope your 8mo. old babies diaper, yes you will let Grannies bra be gone into, yes your six year old girls crotch can be touched and yes former Miss America you can have your private parts entered. Yes, we are in big trouble. I have been trying for three years to tell people about agenda 21 and I have lost a lot of family and friends. Guess what? I moved let them learn, I now live on ten acres and I will be one who survives this mess. Make sure you do.

Comment by valerie eggers on June 4, 2011 at 12:21pm: Teresa, I am glad to know that I am not the only suspicious one on here. LOLOL Like you, experience has taught me that we canNOT trust government or the media. We are being forced back generations to survive with any confidence in what we are eating, breathing, drinking etc. I don't know a great deal about Agenda 21 and am almost afraid to learn more.

The question is where...and WHEN...will it all end!

Comment by Teresa Smith on June 4, 2011 at 12:10pm: Valerie,Your read my mind when I first heard the report. Who knows there are false flags in every country. Remember two years ago when you could not get a tomato? I saw they were destroying crops of vegetables. They claim there is a food shortage now and will get worse. I think its to starve the people. Look at the countries already banning vitamins. Now, The US is going to try again to do it. To close now vitamin shops ect. Remember McCain wanted to stop the selling of Natural products? This is all part of Codex Alimentarious (cant spell it) or agenda 21 or sustainable development there all one in the same really. I believe the Chem trails in all the countries are making our soil toxic. IMHO. Plus the Monsanto group is making their vegetable seeds cause kidney and liver cancer in rats. We now have GMO seeds and food and I think its to de populate us and not be able to have nutrients to help us stay healthy. I know it sounds crazy but I do not trust any Governments and I know it sounds like a made for tv movie.