With the ongoing mainland european wide scare regarding some cucumbers being infected with should we be worried ?
A deadly E. coli outbreak in Europe is expected to worsen in coming days, a senior German scientist has said. Fourteen people have died in Germany and one woman has now died in Sweden after a trip to Germany.
"We hope the number of cases will go down but we fear it will worsen,"said Oliver Grieve, of the University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein, where many victims are being treated.
It is thought cucumbers from Spain caused the outbreak. But Spanish officials have refused to accept the blame, saying it is still unclear exactly when and where the vegetables were contaminated.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Germany's national disease institute, has confirmed 329 cases in the country , whilst in Sweden, authorities earlier said there were 36 suspected E. coli infections, all linked to travel in northern Germany.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has described the outbreak as "very large and very severe" and has urged countries to work together to find the source of contamination.
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