Children seriously poisoned by E. coli: “We are observing an increase in cases, without obvious explanation”.
More than a hundred children on average are affected each year, a number that has tended to increase since monitoring began thirty years ago. The year 2022, marked by several collective infections from industrial pizzas, was record-breaking with 253 cases recorded. 11 children with HUS – including five in the same nursery – were infected with this same epidemic strain at the end of last year.