33 Deaths Reported Across Europe Due to E.coli Outbreak -- More Deaths Warned by Germnay's Health Minister

33 Deaths Reported Across Europe Due to E.coli Outbreak

BERLIN, Germany – Authorities in Germany have identified the source of the E.coli outbreak as being vegetable sprouts from an organic farm in Lower Saxony, northern Germany.

E. coli outbreak has killed 32 people already in Germany, While Mr Daniel Bahr, Health Minister of Germany, warned of more possible deaths even the source of infection has been identified. 

Daniel Bahr, talking to Bild am Sonntag newspaper, said, “'More fatalities cannot be ruled out, painful though it is to say so.”

The decreasing number of people being infected was a healthy sign; but it couldn’t rule out more cases of E.coli infection; he further added.

Reportedly, more than 3,000 got infected with E.coli in 14 European countries while the death of a Swedish woman is reported, who recently travelled to Germany, other than 32 deaths confirmed in Germany.