Fair and Petting Zoo Safety

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2002 E. coli Outbreak at a Petting Zoo in Zutphen, The Netherlands

Heuvelink et al (2002) reported that a young child developed a Shiga toxin 2 producing strain of Escherichia coli (STEC) O157 infection after visiting a petting zoo in Zutphen, The Netherlands. The STEC strains were isolated from the fecal samples from goats and sheep on the farm and were indistinguishable from the human patient isolate.

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2002 Lane County, Oregon, Fair E. coli Outbreak

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