LONDON - scientists have Europe's worst recorded food poisoning outbreak on a "super toxic" tribe of E. coli bacteria guilt, the may be new.
But while suspicion of raw tomatoes, cucumbers, and lettuce as a source of seed has fallen, have researchers disgusted not responsible more than 1,600 for the terrifying disease, identifying the food, at least 18 people died, and spread to at least 10 European countries were.
An alarmingly high number of victims - 500 - have developed, renal complications, which can be fatal.
The DNA of E. coli bacteria analyzed Chinese and German scientists and found that the outbreak of "a brand new, Super-toxic" was caused to root, which contains several antibiotics resistant genes, according to a statement from Shenzhen, China-based laboratory BGI. It said the strain seemed a combination of two types of E. coli.
"This a unique burden, never by patients before isolated has been", said Hilde Kruse, a food safety expert at the World Health Organization, the associated press on Thursday. The new tribe has "different properties, the it more virulent and toxin-producing" as many of the E. coli strains people naturally in their gut take.
However interviewed Dr. Robert Tauxe, a food-borne-disease expert at the US Centers for disease control and prevention, whether the burden is really new, say, that it had caused a single case in the 1990's in Korea. He said genetic fingerprints, patterns, but this is not necessarily enough, to a new root form vary from sample.
"Although it seems to have been a while, it called attention to itself as a major public health problem above has not,", Tauxe said.
Elsewhere in Europe Russia a ban on vegetables from Spain and Germany on the entire European Union to try to spread East, a movement quit the EU the outbreak quickly expanded called disproportionate and Italian farmers denounced as "Absurd." No fatalities or infections have been reported in Russia.
Philipp was in Hamburg, 29 year-old photojournalist, on Monday after the sick in the hospital are hospitalized. He would not give his last name because he wanted people know, that he had the E. coli strain.
After suffering from stomach and bloody stools, he developed neurological symptoms and could feel not his left arm or leg. Despite three blood plasma, not he has improved transfusions, to wash the toxins from his blood.
Philipp he said food recalls vegetables of the night before he is ill.
Some scientists suspect that the deadly E. coli in fertilizer use, manure to vegetables would have been.
Kruse said it is not uncommon that bacteria search engine market to exchange genes. It is difficult to explain where the new tribe came, she said, bacteria in humans and animals but trade easily genes.
Outbreaks in particular children and the elderly have taken previous E. coli, but this one is disproportionately adults, especially women concern. Kruse, said it could be something particular about the bacteria strain, which makes it all the more dangerous for adults. Other experts said, added that women tend more produce food.
Almost all patients either live in Germany or travelled there recently. British officials announced four new cases, including three Britons, Germany and a German on holiday in England recently visited.
The WHO recommends that to prevent food-borne diseases, people wash their hands, separately from other food keep raw meat, thoroughly their food, and wash fruits and vegetables cooking, for especially when eaten raw. Experts recommend also peeling raw fruits and vegetables if possible.
The fact can that might the response to the outbreak have hampered the load.
"Officials not the right tests to detect, may have had the initial delay in reporting can tell", said Paul Hunter, Professor of health at the University of East Anglia in England.
He said that would probably slow number of new cases to a trickle in the next few days. The incubation period for this type of E. coli is about three to eight days. "Salads have a relatively short shelf life and it is likely the contaminated were consumed in one to two weeks would have", said Hunter.
But Hunter warned that the outbreak could continue if it secondary transmission of the disease if infected children are often happens. E. coli is present in the feces and can of sloppy bad habits, such as error, wash the hands spread are.
Meanwhile, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the European Commission proposed and Germany for singling out of the country's produce at an early stage as a possible source of the outbreak, and said, call for the Government would "Final statements and adequate reparations."
Spanish farmers say that the accusations have devastated their credibility and exports. In Valencia, farmers protest some 300 kilograms (700 pounds) of fruit and vegetables dumped - cabbage, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and other products - outside the German Consulate.
Outbreak is already number three with E. coli in the recent history of the world and it can be most deadly. Twelve people died in a Japanese 1996 outbreak, who died allegedly more than 9,000 disgusted, and seven at a Canadian outbreak in 2000.
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Kirsten Grieshaber reported from Berlin. Gabriele Steinhauser in Brussels, Ciaran Giles Madrid, Karel Janicek Prague, Adam Schreck in Dubai, Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow and AP medical writer Mike Stobbe contributed to this report.
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