Walter Loening, Maurice Kibel and Louis Reynolds
The OUTBREAK of an epidemic of severe enteritis in Germany should make us sit up and take note and action.
This particular epidemic was most unusual in that the cause was a highly toxic and virulent EHEH variant of the common E coli bacterium. E coli bacteria are fairly harmless inhabitants of the human gut. It is of note that this outbreak occurred and spread fairly widely in a country known for its high standard of sanitation and hygiene.
