Germany needs help dealing with the E.coli investigation

The European Commissioner for Health, John Dalli, asked the German authorities to cooperate closely with the foreign experts in order to identify rapidly the origin of the E.coli contamination, the German newspaper wrote in an interview with the European official. According to his official statement, it is a great need for support from the entire Europe and even from the outside continent’s borders in order to deal with the lethal bacteria, he continued for Die Welt. According to his opinion, the efficiency in dealing with this contamination consists in the proper collaboration of worldwide experts and not only the German ones. According to the German newspaper, the European Union wants to invite experts from China and United States of America at the investigation of the contamination’s origins. The European officials criticized the questionnaire made by the German authorities in the investigation because they are very restrictive, the German journalist wrote.

According to their sources, the European officials think that the German method to discover the source of the contamination is only searching the consumption of a restricted number of vegetables. The Ministry of Health and the one of the Consumer Protection from Germany will meet in Berlin John Dalli at a crisis reunion, a spokesman of the Health Ministry from Germany announced. Meanwhile, the balance of the death provoked by the E.coli contamination is up to 23 in Germany, according to an official from the Sanitary Federal Institute, Robert Koch. Another woman from Sweden had died from the same reasons. It appears that the women had visited Germany a while ago. More, it appears that the Greeks health authorities announced that on Tuesday they identified a “compatible bacteria” with Eceh at the origin of German tourist’s symptoms, but the person got back into her country and she is in a good health condition.

The World Health Organization made public a report of the E.coli cases worldwide. Beside the German cases, other 31 persons from 12 European countries are under surveillance because there are suspicions of the E.coli contamination. Austria registered two cases of contamination, Czech, only one, in Denmark there are 18 cases, in France, ten and Luxembourg announced one case. The balance continues with Holland, that announced eight cases, Norway with one person suspected, in Poland is the same situation, in Spain there are two cases, in Sweden there are 46 persons that presents the symptoms, in Switzerland there are three illness cases and in Great Britain, 11 people are under strict surveillance.  

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