Fatal cases
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To date, 13 deaths have been notified [now 18 - Mod.LL]: in 9 cases,
the deaths were in connection with HUS; in the remainder, the cases
had had symptomatic STEC infection that was laboratory confirmed. The
cases who died were between 22 and 91 years of age: 5 were aged
between 22 and 40 years and 8 between 75 and 91 years of age.
i to juz kiedys bylo tylko nie na taka duza skale:
Serotype STEC O104 has
caused foodborne outbreaks of diarrhea and HUS, or isolated cases of
HUS before (4,5), but is not known to have caused previous outbreaks
in Germany.