31/05/2011-07:02am
E.Coli jangkitan bakteria yang boleh membunuh yang dibawa oleh sayur-sayuran yang dicemari dari Sepanyol..kena ambil langkah keselamatan nie kalau kita import dari Sepanyol!
A market seller gives a cucumber to a woman in a fruit and vegetable market in Malaga, southern Spain on Monday. Vegetables from Spain may carry the dangerous E.coli bacteria, which is suspected of killing some people in Germany and has caused hundreds of people to become ill across Europe. (Sergio Torres/AP)
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Eropah cemas sayuran tercemar
31 Mei 2011
SEBIJI timun yang ditanam di sebuah rumah hijau di Algarrobo Sepanyol - Reuters
PRAGUE, Republik Czech — Sejumlah sayuran dari Sepanyol yang disyaki dicemari bakteria yang boleh membawa maut ditarik balik penjualannya di Austria dan Republik Czech bagi mengelak wabak penyakit, lapor pihak berkuasa semalam.
Jangkitan bakteria yang dikenal pasti sebagai E. coli itu telah membunuh sekurang-kurangnya sembilan orang manakala ratusan yang lain di seluruh Eropah mengalami keracunan.
Pihak berkuasa Czech menyatakan, sebanyak 120 timun organik Sepanyol yang disyaki dicemari bakteria itu ditarik semula penjualannya dari pasar raya dan kedai runcit.
Pegawai kesihatan di Austria pula memberitahu, hanya sebilangan jumlah timun yang ditarik balik.
Agensi Kesihatan dan Keselamatan Makanan Austria menjelaskan, pihaknya telah mengeluarkan amaran bahawa pencemaran bakteria itu turut merebak pada tanaman tomato dan terung.
Agensi tersebut mendakwa sejumlah sayuran itu mungkin telah dijual dan meminta orang ramai yang membelinya supaya segera membuang sayuran tersebut.
Di Denmark, seramai lapan orang dimasukkan ke hospital akibat jangkitan bakteria E. coli.
Timun yang dicemari bakteria itu turut dilaporkan turut dieksport ke Hungary dan Luxembourg untuk dijual.
Dua rumah hijau di Sepanyol didapati menjadi sumber bakteria tersebut merebak.
Negara lain seperti United Kingdom dan Belanda juga dipercayai dijangkiti bakteria tersebut.
Orang ramai yang baru pulang mengunjungi Jerman pula diminta untuk berjumpa dengan doktor jika mereka mengalami cirit birit berdarah. - Agensi
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Death toll Europe from suspected E. coli vegetables rises to 11
MAY 30, 2011
In this photo taken May 24, 2011 , an employee of the laboratory at Hamburg Eppendorf hospital shows a bacterial culture of the EHEC bacterium. German news agency DAPD reported that almost 300 are sick with hemolytic uremic syndrome, or HUS, in recent days. HUS is a rare complication arising from an infection most commonly associated with E. coli, a bacterium found in undercooked beef or contaminated food. German officials have said they found three cucumbers from Spain with the bacterium and they are currently probing whether the cucumbers were contaminated with E. coli when they were shipped from southern Spain, or if they went bad during shipment or while being handled in Germany.
Photograph by: Philipp Guelland, AP Photo
VIENNA, Austria - Austrian officials inspected supermarkets on Monday for Spanish vegetables suspected of contamination with a potentially fatal bacteria that has sickened hundreds of Europeans. In Germany, the death toll from the outbreak rose to 11.
Spain, meanwhile, went on the defensive, saying there was no proof that the E. coli outbreak has been caused by Spanish vegetables.
Spain's Secretary of State for European Affairs, Diego Lopez Garrido, said Madrid might take action against those pointing fingers at his southern European nation.
"You can't attribute the origin of this sickness to Spain," Lopez Garrido told reporters in Brussels. "There is no proof and that's why we are going to demand accountability from those who have blamed Spain for this matter."
Austrian authorities sent inspectors to 33 organic supermarkets Monday to make sure Spanish vegetables suspected of contamination have been taken off shelves. The move came after a recall and sales ban of cucumbers, tomatoes and eggplants that originated in Spain and were delivered to stores in Austria by German companies.
"If anything is found to be left over, it will be tested and taken off the market," Austrian Health Ministry spokesman Fabian Fusseis said.
While two German tourists have tested positive for enterohaemorrhagic E.coli, also known as EHEC, no so-called homegrown cases have been reported, he added.
In Germany, where the death toll rose to 11 on Monday, officials said even though they know that Spanish cucumbers tainted with EHEC have carried the bacteria, they still have not been able to determine the exact source.
"We have found the so-called EHEC pathogens on cucumbers, but that does not mean that they are responsible for the whole outbreak," Andreas Hensel, president of Germany's Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, said on ZDF television.
Spanish Health Minister Leire Pajin, noting that no Spanish cases have been reported, urged Germany to speed up its probe and establish proof of what has caused the outbreak. Germany's allegations "create alarm and affect the producers of a country without any evidence," she said.
In Poland, officials said Monday that a woman has been hospitalized in serious condition after returning from a trip to the northern German city of Hamburg, where at least 467 cases of intestinal infection have been recorded.
On Sunday, authorities said those included 91 cases of the more severe hemolytic uremic syndrome, but the officials noted on Monday that the number of new diarrhea cases was declining. HUS is a rare complication arising from infection associated with the E. coli bacterium.
Czech officials said tests on 120 potentially tainted Spanish cucumbers pulled off shelves on Sunday are expected to be concluded in two days. No illnesses have been reported.
In Italy, meanwhile, the country's paramilitary Carabinieri tainted food squad has been on the lookout since Saturday for any contaminated cucumbers, checking imports from Spain, the Netherlands and other European countries. So far, lab analyses have come back negative, and no cases of food poisoning have been reported.
Still, Italy's agriculture lobby, Coldiretti, urged Italians to support their local growers to avoid imports.
Currently, Italian supermarkets are full of peaches, apricots, cherries and plums from Spain. As for pickles and cucumbers, Italy imported some 8 million kilograms (17 million pounds) from Spain last year.
EU spokesman Frederic Vincent said Sunday that two greenhouses in Spain that were identified as the source of the contaminated cucumbers had ceased activities. The water and soil there are being analyzed to see whether they were the problem, and the results are expected Tuesday or Wednesday, said Vincent.
The EU notified member states Friday of the source of the outbreak, which has affected primarily the Hamburg area of Germany and, to a lesser extent, Sweden, Denmark, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, according to Vincent.
Source:http://www.canada.com/NEWS/Death+toll+Europe+from+suspected+coli+vegetables+rises/4861314/story.html
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E. coli outbreak spreading, Spain oppose responsibility
More than 270 people in Germany have fallen seriously ill, possibly because of the deadly bacteria are imported from Spain, cucumbers, but Madrid said on Friday it was “no evidence” is the culprit.
Russia is considering a ban on all German vegetables, in the wake of the outbreak of Escherichia coli.
Source/read more:http://www.latestbbcnews.com/e-coli-outbreak-spreading-spain-oppose-responsibility.html
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