Alberta Health Services says 231 people, many of them children, have been infected with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli 0157 after an outbreak this month at several Calgary daycares.
Twenty-five children and one adult are in hospital; 21 have severe illness or hemolytic uremic syndrome.Shiga toxin-producing E. coli 0157 is different than typical E. coli infections, because it produces a toxin that can cause complications. It's a type of bacteria that can cause diarrhea, which can be bloody.Diarrhea, stomach cramps, nausea, and vomiting. Symptoms usually start one to 10 days after eating food contaminated with the E. coli bacteria.
"For children where we see that they're evolving into the hemolytic urine syndrome or develop it, those children are pretty much all hospitalized. Children who are not at that point, but sometimes even just because of the dehydration or the pain or the inability to drink, sometimes those children need to be hospitalized as well.''
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