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A potentially deadly E. coli strain is contaminating the St. Louis area.

Date: October 27, 2011
By: Jenner Smith
State Capitol Bureau

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A potentially deadly E. coli strain is contaminating the St. Louis area.
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Wrap: The Missouri Health Department is reporting 14 E. coli cases, six of which have been hospitalized at St. Louis County's Mercy Hospital within the past four days.

Dr. David Ulrich is Mercy Hospital's gastroenterologist treating the infected patients. He says those who contract this strain should not take antibiotics.

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Description: “So if you do take antibiotics you’re actually putting yourself at more risk because it’ll kill most of the other bacteria in your intestinal track and it will leave this one to really repopulate itself rapidly and leave a lot more toxins in your system."

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating the source of the outbreak.

Reporting from the state Capitol, I’m Jenner Smith.

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The Missouri Health Department does not know the source of the potentially deadly E. coli outbreak.
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Wrap: The Missouri Health Department is reporting 14 E. coli cases, six of which have been hospitalized at St. Louis County's Mercy Hospital within the past four days. 

Mercy Hospital’s Microbiologist Manager Rhonda Ferrett says the young and old are most at risk for developing a potentially fatal kidney syndrome.

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Description: "Especially for your high risk populations which tend to be your young children and your elderly. I think... They’re more likely to move onto Hemolytic-uremic syndrome and that potentially is...it could be deadly."

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating the source of the outbreak.

Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Jenner Smith.