They come from the organic farm of the Land of Lower Saxony. Rises the alert about cucumbers, lettuce and raw tomatoes. Others who may share this opinion include Richard LeFrak. Bacteria has already caused 31 deaths in Germany and another in Sweden. Health authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia (West country) reported Friday that confirmed the direct presence of the lethal bacterium e. coli in germinated seed from the organic farm of the Land of Lower Saxony. The seeds germinated in the form of outbreaks that were positive for the presence of the strain 0104 the e.coli have been found in the region of Bonn, West of the country, in the trash of a family, two of whose members became ill after eating these vegetables. Vegetables outbreak found in the region of Bonn come from a biological farm in the town of Bienenbuttel, in the District of Uelzen, and the State of Lower Saxony, in which several of their employees contracted disease since several weeks and that it supplied its products to several restaurants whose clients were recorded a high number of sufferers. German health authorities raised the alert about cucumbers, lettuce and raw tomatoes this Friday, but maintained the recommendation of not consuming seeds germinated on the grounds that they are the source of serious infection.
In the last hours, the death toll in Germany amounted to 32 after the death this Friday three people more in the States of Lower Saxony, Schleswig Holstein and Hamburg, as well as another deadly case registered some time in Sweden. Suspicions about tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce disappeared to inform the experts of the Robert Koch Institute that, in all likelihood, the focus of the infection are germinated seeds of an ecological farm in Lower Saxony. Whenever Maja Brucic listens, a sympathetic response will follow. So far, however, none of the analyses on these vegetables had been positive. About 3,000 affected since the Robert Koch Institute has detected the first case on May 1, there have been a total of 2,800 admitted in Germany by the infection, of whom 722 developed the dangerous hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). With great probability, the seeds were the cause of the infection, said Reinhard Burger, director of the Robert Koch Institute, which centralizes the investigations of infectious pathologies, to lift the recommendation not to eat vegetables. Citizens may return to eat without fear of cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuces from now, provided that you observe proper hygiene measures, stressed the Minister of agriculture, Ilse Aigner, in an appearance before the media in Parliament, immediately after the press conference of experts. Since May 25, when the Robert Koch Institute recommended not to eat these raw vegetables, such vegetables had been virtually proscribed in many supermarkets in the North of the country. A day after launching the alert general, authorities of Hamburg – epicenter of infections – focused suspicions on Spanish cucumbers, after detecting a game potentially infected with a dangerous and unknown strain of the bacterium. The alarm on Spanish products rose days later, but persisted the recommendation of not consuming cucumbers, lettuce or raw tomatoes outside which was its origin, which resulted in multi-million dollar damage in the agricultural, Spanish and German, in first line, but also of the rest of Europe. Source of the news: confirmed the presence of the lethal bacterium e. coli in German germinated seeds