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Children hospitalised in France with E.coli
Seven children have been hospitalised in France with E. coli infections after eating meat that manufacturers said could come from Germany, where an outbreak of the bacteria has already killed 37 people.
The children, the youngest of whom is 20 months old, had reportedly eaten frozen hamburgers made by the French company SEB which said the meat was taken from animals slaughtered in three European countries and processed in France.
The cases come after a major E. coli outbreak that killed 38 people -- all in Germany except for one woman who died in Sweden after visiting Germany -- and sickened 3,300 people in 16 countries.
Officials said the infection was a rare strain of the E. coli bacteria and was not linked to the similar outbreak in Germany.
John Zammit •
The italian media reported other products by the same company being withdrawn from the supermarket chain in Italy. Can authorities comfirm the safety of these products in Malta?
