Kidney

  • Oklahoma E. coli victim dies of complications – 8 years later

    Posted: November 12th, 2010 - 4:38pm by Doug Powell

    A 24-year-old Owasso, Oklahoma man has died of complications from an E. coli infection he contracted in 2002. Richard Chatfield (right, photo from News On 6, in 2008) died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, according to a family friend, who said it was related to a kidney transplant he underwent in 2009.

    Chatfield spoke with the News On 6 in 2008 for a story about the lingering effects of E.coli. Six years after his diagnosis, he was on dialysis and had been told that without a kidney transplant he would die.

    Chatfield became ill after a summer camp, but never knew the source of the infection. Chatfield was a graduate of Tulsa Community College and an Eagle Scout. He worked at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

    Services will be held November 13, 2010 at Faith Lutheran Church in Owasso.
     

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  • E. coli outbreak hospitalizes three children in Norway

    Posted: November 11th, 2010 - 12:56pm by Doug Powell

    Three small children from Oslo, Akershus and Østfold are in hospital with a serious kidney disease following an E. coli infection.

    Oslo University Hospital (Oslo Universitetssykehus) authorities confirm two have developed the potentially fatal Haemolytic-uremic syndrome (H.U.S.), which can also give acute kidney failure and change blood chemistry.

    The Institute of Public Health (Folkehelseinstituttet/FHI) says the third child, admitted to Ullevål Hospital, has also developed H.U.S. Medical staff at both hospitals are refusing to give details about their conditions.

    The Foreigner reports that no further details were available at this time.
     

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  • Food at folk pavilion suspected source of E. coli; 16 sick in Canada, kidney failure in child

    Posted: August 19th, 2010 - 6:24pm by Doug Powell

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    I don’t know what Folklorama is in Winnipeg (that’s in Canada) but food served at the Russian pavilion is the suspected source of an E. coli outbreak that has sickened 16 including one confirmed case at emergency rooms between Aug. 1 and Aug. 16.

    The Winnipeg Free Press reports the parents of a two-year-old boy who suffered kidney failure want tougher food-handling rules imposed on the fair.

    The boy’s mother said tests confirmed the boy had verotoxigenic E. coli and was in acute renal failure. The tot spent two nights in the pediatric intensive care unit and now has a central dialysis line in his neck and hip.

    Executive director Ron Gauthier said nothing like this has ever happened before in Folklorama's 41 years and he doesn't know what potential changes the festival could make until the review is complete.
     

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  • 4-year-old UK boy needs new kidney after E. coli in Egypt

    Posted: May 20th, 2010 - 7:48pm by Doug Powell

    Four-year-old Bodie Elliot from Canterbury, U.K., (right, photo from Kent Online) was struck down with E.coli on a family holiday will now need a kidney transplant, his parents revealed today.

    Kent Online reports that parents Vernon and Emma were left devastated after doctors told them.

    The couple all had stomach upsets after eating at a hotel in the popular resort of Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt in September 2008.

    When they returned home, Bodie quickly became increasingly ill and was taken to hospital.

    Bodie nearly died after suffering kidney failure and to be put on dialysis and have a blood transfusion.

    But he continues to need hospital care and is now being treated at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

    A consultant there has just told the family Bodie's kidneys are only functioning at around 50 per cent capacity.

    Mr Elliot said the couple remained locked in legal dispute with the hotel over what they claim were poor food hygiene standards that led to themselves and Bodie falling ill after eating a beef lasagne from a buffet.

    But in an email to the family, the hotel's insurers deny any responsibility claiming no other guests reported feeling ill at the time.

    It added that the business is regularly inspected for health and hygiene and its procedures found to be "acceptable and appropriate."

    Mr Elliott said,

    "I will continue to fight for compensation for my son but we also want to make people aware of what a deadly bug this is because we wouldn't want another family and child to go through what we have."

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  • UK toddler out of hospital after petting zoo kidney failure; 5th farm closes

    Posted: September 25th, 2009 - 5:56am by Doug Powell

    Todd Furnell (right), a two-year-old boy who suffered kidney failure following an E.coli outbreak at a petting farm was discharged from hospital after two weeks. Unfortunately his brother was still on a drip and too unwell to be released.

    The Health Protection Agency said yesterday     that a fifth farm has partially closed after identifying a further five cases of E. coli O157 in people who had visited Big Sheep and Little Cow Farm.
     

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  • The face of E. coli O157

    Posted: August 7th, 2009 - 8:40am by Doug Powell

    Three-year-old Abigail Hennessey, right, is recovering from an E. coli O157 outbreak in Wales that struck at least four people, including a 32-year-old librarian and new mother who remains in a medically induced coma after suffering kidney damage as a result of the infection.

    Abigail’s grandfather, Ronald Hennessey, of Gresford, said that thanks to superb medical treatment from the staff at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, Abigail was now steadily improving.

    “It is great to know she is making excellent progress. Day by day she is getting better and stronger in her recovery.”

    Mr Hennessey said the situation was in stark contrast to last week when Abigail fell seriously ill after contracting E.coli.

    “Then it was almost as if she was in a kind of trance. She was just staring right ahead. But now she is up talking and laughing. I don’t know when she will be coming home. I would very much like to thank Alder Hey for its tremendous work. They have been magnificent.”

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