Fifth child 本気で ill with E.coli

Last updated at 16:35 12 May 2006


A fifth child has been 確認するd as having 腎臓 失敗 に引き続いて an 突発／発生 of the 潜在的に deadly E.coli bug at a nursery, health 公式の／役人s said today.

The 21-month-old boy was in hospital in Glasgow 夜通し, along with the other four youngsters, as 出来事/事件 支配（する）／統制する 長，指導者s continued 成果／努力s to identify the source of the 突発／発生.

NHS Fife said it looked "ますます likely" that the 初めの 感染 may have been brought into the Careshare Nursery in Dunfermline by an adult or child and others 感染させるd through person to person spread.

一方／合間, the families of 12 children and one adult stricken with 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd E.coli 感染s 直面する an anxious wait.

Five toddlers have been in hospital 夜通し - four of them 本気で ill with 腎臓 失敗 - に引き続いて the 潜在的に deadly bug 脅す at a nursery in Dunfermline.

On Thursday health 公式の／役人s said another seven children and one adult were 存在 kept under 観察 at home.

The 最新の 事例／患者s 現れるd after bosses at Careshare Nursery 認める they knew about the first 事例／患者 of the bug on Friday - four days before the コンビナート／複合体 was shut.

All 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd E.coli 苦しんでいる人s either …に出席するd or have links to the 設立. Its 操作／手術s director, Jonathan Bell, said they had been 知らせるd of the 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd E.Coli O157 感染 in one child who …に出席するd the nursery in a letter from NHS Fife.

The nursery was shut 任意に by Careshare only on Tuesday this week when news of the 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd bug in three toddlers 現れるd. Mr Bell said: "We were only made aware on Friday May 5 that it was 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd E.Coli when we were 接触するd. The child had not …に出席するd nursery that week.

"We knew she was not …に出席するing nursery because she was unwell but we didn't know the 原因（となる） or the nature of her illness until we were 接触するd on the Friday."

The nursery's hygiene 記録，記録的な／記録する was criticised by 政府 視察官s in January. に引き続いて a visit in October las t year, HM Inspectorate of Education 設立する staff did not change aprons often enough or use two gloves when changing nappies.

Mr Bell said the nursery was 現在／一般に を受けるing a 深い clean using strong anti-bacterial 製品s which would not 普通は be 許すd in a nursery. He 辞退するd to 推測する on the source of the 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd 突発／発生 or how it may have spread, choosing instead to を待つ the results of the 現在進行中の 調査s.

"If it is 証明するd that we are the source, we take our 責任／義務 very 本気で and we will do whatever is necessary to 確実にする that there is no その上の repetition of this 出来事/事件," Mr Bell said. "My main 関心 at the moment is the health and 福利事業 of those children who are unwell."

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