Tulsa Church Daycare E. coli Outbreak
Tulsa child E. coli cases have drawn investigators to a church daycare center where three of the four case patients are enrolled for child care. The Tulsa City-County Health Department announced the investigation this week, saying two siblings infected by E. coli have been hospitalized.
All of the children sickened in the outbreak are younger than 10, Health Department spokeswoman Kaitlin Snider said. An agency press release identified the daycare center as located at Boston Avenue United Methodist Church. Health officials said they cannot be certain that the church or its child-care program is the source of the infection, but they are closely investigating that angle. The center has capacity to care for more than 100 children..
"The source of E. coli can be challenging to confirm," Health Department Director Bruce Dart stated in a news release. He stressed that there is no indication that this infection is related to the outbreak in Germany that has killed at least 18 people. Nor have health officials drawn any links between what is happening in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and a similar-sized child E. coli outbreak in Amarillo, Texas, where seven young people have been sickened.
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