18-month-old died in SLO County E. coli outbreak. ‘We are inconsolable,' grandma says
The patient who died due to complications from an E. coli infection following an outbreak in San Luis Obispo was an 18-month-old girl, her grandmother confirmed. The toddler developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a serious and sometimes fatal complication from Shiga toxin-producing E. coli that can result in kidney failure. The deadly strain is also commonly known as STEC or E. coli O157. The young girl visited Brookshire Farms with her family in mid-October and began experiencing symptoms a few days later. She was hospitalized for 10 days at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and died on Nov. 4, according to the girl’s grandmother, Los Osos resident Judy Wolf. “She was a loved child,” Wolf said in an email to The Tribune. Wolf said her heart was broken in the wake of her granddaughter’s death. “We are inconsolable,” she said. Toddler died from dangerous E. coli strain in SLO County. Here’s how rare it is The E. coli outbreak, which was linked to the local farm, put three children in intensive care and sickened at least two others, the San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department said. The county Public Health Department confirmed the death on Tuesday but did not share
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