Ground meat from Cora, Leclerc or Auchan stores recalled. Toxigenic Escherichia coli shiga bacteria was detected.
E. coli bacteria can cause “sometimes bloody diarrhea, abdominal pain and vomiting, accompanied or not by fever,” recalls the government website. Most patients recover within 10 days, recalls the World Health Organization, but in the most vulnerable, particularly young children and the elderly, "the infection can progress to a potentially fatal form"