The translation is rough and details sketchy, but Focus is reporting a 6-year-old girl from Hamburg died over the weekend from the effects of EHEC, which probably means some strain of shiga-toxin producing E. coli.

A spokesman for the Health Authority of the City of confirming the news agency on Sunday evening, a case of illness with the pathogen.According to the newspaper "Die Welt" on Monday, the child died in the early hours of Sunday. The first grader had shown since the beginning of last week, symptoms of infection with the aggressive food germ, the head of a primary school in Hamburg-Blankenese said on Sunday. She was treated at a hospital. Apparently it was an isolated case

"This is an isolated incident," said the spokesman. "It is not at all comparable to the situation last year" (meaning sprouts and E. coli O104, in which 53 people died).

The killer mushroom story from Canberra, Australia is taking on new levels of weirdness.

Today, the ACT's chief health officer confirmed the bistro where a deadly mushroom dish was cooked on New Year's Eve would remain closed and would need to be inspected before it was allowed to reopen.

The Chinese restaurant, located in the Harmonie German Club in Narranbundah, had been due to reopen after the Christmas break on Wednesday night, just hours before management learnt of the tragic mistake, in which two people died and two others were taken to hospital after eating the dish laced with death cap mushrooms.

Canberra health authorities last night confirmed the meal was prepared in a restaurant kitchen.

Acting ACT Chief Health Officer Dr Andrew Pengilly said that, while the bistro had closed voluntarily, ACT Health had asked for it to remain shut until an inspection could be carried out.

Last night, a sign on the door of the restaurant, which is run by an independent operator within the club, said the chef "made a deadly mistake."

The sign said that it was informing the community with the "greatest regret" that chef Liu Jun and kitchen hand Tsou Hsiang "made a deadly mistake and ate some mushroom (death caps) that they mistook for Chinese straw mushrooms".
It was unclear who had posted the note, but Harmonie German Club secretary Susan Davidson confirmed it had not come from the club nor the independent operator of the restaurant.

Mr Liu, 38, who made the meal at the bistro, and Ms Tsou, 52, died from liver failure in Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital while waiting for transplants.
Mystery surrounds another man, 51, who remains in the hospital in a stable condition with death cap poisoning.

ACT Health initially said this man was part of the same group, but ACT police said this was not the case.

Friends of the chef, who had spent several years working in Australia, said he was obsessed with fresh food. He was also working to send money home to his Chinese wife and two children, a seven-year-old boy and a girl, 11.

"The mushrooms were brought into the club for a private meal, cooked after bistro hours, by the chef for him and his co-workers. It was not a meal on the bistro menu and was not a meal that was offered to, or available to, the public," it added.

An elderly woman has died as a result of botulism poisoning, produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, after eating some Italian olives that contained the toxin.

According to the Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District, she succumbed to the illness on Thursday.

Another adult member of the same family remains in hospital.

Prior to their illness, both had eaten from a jar of stuffed organic olives, which was subsequently discovered to contain the toxin, as reported by THL, the National Institute for Health and Welfare.

The olives in question were manufactured and packaged in Italy, and the jar contains the Finnish wording "Gaudiano Bio oliivi mantelitäytteellä" (Gaudiano Organic Olives Stuffed with Almonds).

The best-before dates on the product are 08/2012 or 09/2012 and the batch numbers H2510X or L1810X.

 All the warnings about the usual listeria suspects – deli meats, soft cheeses, unpasteurized milk – apparently didn’t help contain the listeria outbreak in Colorado: cantaloupe has been identified as the "likely source" of what is now a multi-state listeria outbreak.

The Denver Post reports that nine listeria cases in Colorado have been linked to a multi-state outbreak, which includes potentially related cases in Texas and Nebraska, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

Two people in Colorado died from listeriosis, but only one of those two cases has been linked to the multi-state outbreak.

All nine of Colorado's confirmed linked cases consumed cantaloupe, the release said. No specific source of the contaminated product has been identified.

"While the investigation into the source of the listeria outbreak is continuing, it is prudent for people who are at high risk for listeria infection to avoid consumption of cantaloupe," said Dr. Chris Urbina, chief medical officer with the state health department.

A table of cantaloupe- (or rock melon) related outbreaks is available at http://bites.ksu.edu/cantaloupe-related-outbreaks.