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• Unpublicised E coli outbreak leaves 250 ill and one dead was corrected because one reference said that 74 people were treated for haemolytic uraemic syndrome.

Corrections and clarifications 2011

O157: H7: Detected in 1982, this bacterium is typically transmitted through contaminated food and has caused outbreaks of haemolytic uraemic syndrome in North America, Europe and Japan.

Chapter 2 1998

Less frequent complications of infection with Sd1 include sepsis, seizures, renal failure and the haemolytic uraemic syndrome.

Chapter 2 1996

However, in a small proportion of patients, particularly young children and the elderly, the infection can result in life-threatening complications, such as haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS), for example.

1. What is Escherichia coli O157:H7? 1996

When the kidneys become so badly diseased that they can no longer perform their function of separating from the blood the nitrogenous end-products of digestion, uraemic poisoning occurs.

Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

Death occurs from uraemic poisoning and peritonitis.

Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

The acute form of the disease is very rapid in its progress, often destroying life by uraemic poisoning -- the retention of urea in the system.

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877

The 74 in hospital were treated for haemolytic uraemic syndrome, a serious but rare complication of

The Guardian World News Denis Campbell 2011

Many of those infected have developed haemolytic uraemic syndrome, a potentially deadly complication attacking the kidneys.

The Guardian World News 2011

In Britain, there have been 11 cases of E.coli, three of those with haemolytic uraemic syndrome, the potentially fatal kidney illness.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011