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).

Around 50 dog owners and several dogs are believed to have been infected with enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) following a dog show in eastern Sweden.

"We're right in the middle of investigating where the bacteria came from," Britt Åkerlind of the infectious disease unit of Östergötland County told The Local.

So far, two Swedes have been confirmed as infected by EHEC, one from Skåne in the south, and another from Gothenburg in the west.

"But we're expecting more confirmed cases to come in," said Åkerlind.

Those infected with the bacteria all attended a dog show near Norrköping in eastern Sweden held the first weekend in June.

Of the roughly 120 participants, who traveled from all over Sweden as well as from Denmark, Norway, and Finland, about half have come down with symptoms stemming from EHEC infection.

"We've also received reports that some of the dogs have had upset stomachs," said Åkerlind, who labeled the outbreak as "quite large."

The food safety news from Germany continues to be disturbing. Below is a translation of a German article, so excuse any inaccuracies.

The killer germ called EHEC now appeared three lives: In Lower Saxony (Diepholz) passed away a woman (83). She was admitted nine days ago because of bloody diarrhea hospitalized and treated in hospital. The laboratory evidence of EHEC infection was positive. The woman died on Saturday. Investigations by the health department in the immediate death Diepholz also ongoing.

Meanwhile it was announced that a woman possibly died (25) to EHEC in Bremen. The young woman had shown the symptoms of EHEC pathogen, such as the Bremen health authority said. The EHEC pathogens had not been demonstrated so laboratory diagnosis. In Schleswig-Holstein, died in a 80-year-old woman infected. Whether the pathogen was the cause of death is still unclear.

In their search for the source of the infections with the dangerous intestinal bacteria EHEC is making the Frankfurt FDA. All 19 previously in the Main metropolis ill have eaten in the same canteen, a Frankfurt-based consultancy, said Bellinger Oswald from the Health Department. Two canteens of PWC Consulting had been closed on Monday as a precaution.

The fault is probably a loaded delivery to the canteen: "We assume that the source of infection is located in Northern Germany," said Bellinger. Currently, experts evaluated the delivery notes of the two affected canteens. "We still believe that the transfer has taken place through raw food." Safety reasons are investigated and the kitchen staff, results of samples are expected by the end of the week. As long as the canteens were closed.

More than 40 of these patients also suffered under the hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), which is caused by the intestinal bacteria.