At least eight children in Maricopa County, AZ, have recently been hospitalized with E. coli infections. Is the petting zoo at the Arizona State Fair the source of an E. coli outbreak?
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Arizona E. coli Outbreak
Sommer Lee of Gilbert told AZ Central that her 16-year-old daughter, who spent four days at Phoenix Children’s Hospital in early November, is one of eight children with E. coli infections recently treated at the hospital. All of them had visited the fair before they became ill, she said. Now the fair’s petting zoo is being investigated as a possible source.
The Arizona State Fair ended in late October after a month-long run at the fairgrounds in Phoenix. Ruminant animals, such as cattle, sheep, and goats, are the primary reservoirs of E. coli that produce Shiga toxins that are poisonous to humans.
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Our E. coli lawyers have recovered multiple multi-million dollar settlements for children sickened by E. coli-HUS after visiting petting zoos, including a recent settlement for $7.55 million.
In 2020, Pritzker Hageman E. coli lawyers filed a lawsuit on behalf of a 4-year-old boy who suffered permanent kidney damage from an E. coli infection. He was one of 11 people sickened in an E. coli outbreak linked to an educational exhibit at the Minnesota State Fair that features the live birth of cows, pigs, sheep, goats, and other animals.
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