NEW UNKNOWN GERM Drives Outbreak WHO IS FRIGHTENED OUT THEIR WITS END!!!

[checkcollecter]

Now BILD.de is reporting that person-to-person spreading of the disease has taken place and 2 schools in Germany were closed because of it:

And on this website lifegen.de they've stated the outbreak has a bio-terrorist background (there's been no "official" confirmation of that to date):

Human to human infection
Human to human infection with EHEC is also possible. The bacterium is in the stool of infected people, and is transmitted through for example the toilet, flush the toilet door knob or handle. Via the hands so the bacteria in the mouth of others entering.
Because there is no vaccination against EHEC-bacteria, good hygiene is particularly important to combat its spread. Some tips from the RIVM:

The bacteria that have left 18 dead, sickened hundreds and sparked economic and diplomatic disruptions across Europe are a lethal strain of Escherichia coli that has never been responsible for a human outbreak, health officials said Thursday.

The outbreak is the deadliest in modern history to involve E. coli, and among the top three in terms of the number of people ill. The strain behind the outbreak could have formed from a genetic recombination of two different E. coli bacteria, producing an unusually virulent bug, the World Health Organization said Thursday, citing preliminary genetic sequencing data.

According to WHO, of more than 1,600 people sickened by this E. coli strain, 499 developed a rare and potentially fatal kidney-failure complication known as hemolytic uremic syndrome—a complication that can shut down the kidneys and normally occurs in only a small percentage of people sickened during an E. coli outbreak. It is also unusual in that most of those affected are young adults—and mostly women. E. coli infections normally hit young children and the elderly hardest.

"I've never seen this array of virulence and antibiotic resistance. It's a very unique combination," Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, said of the strain. But he cautioned that it isn't clear what proportion of people really are developing the severe kidney complication, know as HUS, because it is still unknown how many are actually sick. Some may have milder symptoms and haven't visited a doctor. "We clearly need more information on how many other people got sick," he said.

Berlin - The killer germ EHEC is more aggressive ! The number of infected people is rising rapidly, increasing by the hour! For more and more patients with the infection ends serious health consequences or even death - doctors and experts are baffled.
EHEC alarm in Germany!
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The University Clinic in Hamburg: A nurse monitored the patient's dialysis in an EHEC
Photo: dpa
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The bitter mid-term: Up to yesterday evening, more than 2000 cases have been reported. Alarming: At least 18 people died in Europe now as a result of intestinal bacteria, 17 of them in Germany! And speculation regarding the cause of infection is continuing: the Spanish cucumbers were finally excluded, the investigations are in full swing.
After all, now deciphered the genome of the pathogen is: German and Chinese experts were at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) found that the strain is a mutated form of two E. coli bacteria.
That gave the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced yesterday, raised the alarm, since this new strain was discovered previously never is therefore more threatening!
"We can not say where this hybrid was created, whether in an animal in man, in a puddle, a sewage treatment plant or elsewhere," said bacteriologist UKE-Holger Rohde. "One thing is certain: The combination of the bacterial strains makes it easier for the bacteria to adapt to their environment, to be more resistant to drugs."
Problem number 1: The new findings help to further non-current patient, must be analyzed.
Problem number 2: Now also increases the risk of infection still! So far, it was said that a man-to-human transmission is "very unlikely" hygiene preventable.
Meanwhile, however, so-called secondary infections are proved. Infection even without the consumption of contaminated food. Hagen (NRW) had a whole school to be closed! Even in a Hamburg school, students had been infected with a tenth class against another.
State of Emergency in German hospitals, such as the University Hospital in Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein). "It's like a horror movie," says Sister Anne Winter (52). "Over and over again is unexpected complications," senior physician Dr. Tanja Kühbacher (40) sleep current maximum of two hours a night: "It will crush us, literally," What do the experienced physicians, is frightening: Infected patients suffering from muscle spasms, sometimes they come from strange sounds. Some people have such strong convulsions that they need to be fixed.
Station manager Michael Gill (44): "We sleep bad dreams, bad. You get the images of suffering patients out of my head. ":youmad:

[Satyr]

Seriously, this whole article reminds me of this guy, the manner of writing AND the plague. I read it entirely in his voice:

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[reject]

Luckily it mainly effects healthy adult females, so who gives a fuck.

[Frankeh]

[My Mom Is Dead]

Originally Posted by reject

Luckily it mainly effects healthy adult females, so who gives a fuck.

Legal age of consent drops worldwide.

[-SpectraL]

Here's an article on it that's readable... http://www.thelocal.se/34096/20110531/#

[zuperxtreme]

Stop fucking sensationalizing your titles.

/thread, no source.