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EAGLE, Colo.—Eagle County health officials were focusing on swimming pools and child-care centers in their investigation into an E. coli outbreak.
Jill Hunsaker, the county’s public health manager, said several cases have been confirmed children 5 years and under. She did not have an exact number.
E. coli live in the intestines of cattle and other animals and typically are linked to contamination by fecal material. One particular strain—E. coli O157:H7—is believed responsible for about 60 deaths and 73,000 infections a year in the United States. It can cause bloody diarrhea and dehydration.
The very young, the old and people with compromised immune systems are the most at risk.
