According to the marine corps in southern California, 69 recruits were hospitalized with E. coli, nine of them experience serious complications – Gasser syndrome, can cause anemia and kidney failure.
We will remind that on Friday reported 14 new cases among the 5,500 recruits at camp Pendleton and point of training recruits in San Diego. In General, over the past week about the sickness and diarrhoea reported about 300 Marines. The source of the disease is not yet known. Representatives of the marine corps said that the recruits who missed training due to illness to graduate later.
Despite the outbreak, the training of recruits never ceased, and about 500 Marines have completed their training this Friday.
Escherichia coli is a rod-shaped bacterium, which is found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded animals. Most strains of E. coli are harmless but some types cause infectious-inflammatory diseases of the digestive tract, the urinary and reproductive system in men and women. Bacteria multiply rapidly in food and enter the body with contaminated with E. coli food.
