KKCO - International News - Headlines  Germany declares E.Coli
outbreak over  By: Associated Press Email  The Robert Koch
institute said Tuesday no one has fallen ill for three weeks --
a period that covers the disease's incubation time.  There were
52 deaths in all -- 50 in Germany and one each in Sweden and the
U.S. that made it the world's deadliest e coli outbreak.  The
bacterial strain involved caused an unusually high number of
cases of a severe complication that can lead to kidney failure.
A total of 4,321 people fell ill in Germany -- 852 with that
complication.  There were some 140 more cases in 15 other
countries.  The outbreak was traced in early June to a vegetable
sprout farm near Hamburg. European authorities later said one
batch of Fenugreek seeds from Egypt was probably the source.
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