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Four children sick with salmonella at UK nursery

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Another salmonella outbreak at another nursery, this time in the U.K.

Dunfermline Press reports four children who attend a West Fife nursery have been confirmed as suffering from Salmonella group B infection.

NHS Fife said that the cases were identified in early October and none of the children are seriously ill.

NHS Fife said that washing hands is an important way to avoid spreading the infection.
 

UK toddler’s relative dies of E. coli O157

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A relative of a north-east Fife toddler who contracted E. coli O157 has died of the infection.

The Courier reports that the child, who became ill around a month ago, was treated at home.

NHS Fife, whose public health department was investigating the case, confirmed that no one outside the family had contracted the illness and that a woman—an older relative of the child—had died in Ninewells.