(Daily Mail, UK) – A food poisoning bug found in cucumbers which has killed 15 and made over 400 people ill in Germany has now claimed its first reported fatality in another country. A Swedish hospital reported Tuesday that a woman in her 50s died there after being infected by E. coli linked to tainted vegetables. The woman was admitted to the hospital on May 29 after a trip to Germany.
Europeans have traded blame over the source of the deadly bacterial outbreak but the pathogen has been identified on cucumbers imported from Spain - and it is feared tomatoes and lettuce could be affected too.
In Germany, which has recorded all known deaths, officials said they know that at least some Spanish cucumbers tainted with enterohaemorrhagic E.coli, also known as EHEC, have carried the bacteria, although they still have not been able to determine the exact source.
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