Alberta health officials are set to give an update on an E. coli outbreak in Calgary.
Posted: Sep 12, 2023 10:30 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago
In a statement, Alberta Health Services said that, as of Monday afternoon, 25 children and one adult are hospitalized. 11 patients have been discharged since the onset of the outbreak.Fewer than 10 of these patients are on dialysis, the health agency added. AHS cleared the remaining 7 sites to re-open beginning on Tuesday. In an email sent to parents obtained by CBC News, Fueling Brains said it was working on a "staggered reopening plan" for its five other affected sites . None of these sites will be opening Tuesday.
"If you take a pound or a kilogram of ground beef and then there's only 10 microbes in there, I mean that's needle in a haystack type hunting." Dr. Stephen Freedman, a professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at the University of Calgary, said the Alberta Children's Hospital is seeing roughly 50 kids a day for follow up appointments and ongoing monitoring, while the South Health Campus is seeing between 15 and 20 kids daily."I think of this truthfully as the COVID pandemic right now that we're going through of the pediatric population," said Freedman.
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