Germany ‘EHEC’, known as hazardous to health and can cause the death of virus infected at least 16 people.

According to Radio Kassel, Robert-Koch Institute, located in northern Germany in the dissemination of EHEC (Escherichia coli Enterohämorrhagische) called, threatening human health and can cause death, warns of a virus. Hessian Ministry of Health has confirmed that officials in Frankfurt and Darmstadt 8 people caught in the intestinal infection. He announced that 16 people were treated in hospitals. Ministry spokesman stressed that the virus is not a high risk of infection.

bloody diarrhea, vomiting or severe abdominal pain and authorities warned that those who apply to the nearest clinic, as well as the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony and Hesse states, also said that the spread of infection. Robert-Koch Institute, the virus is through undercooked meat and unwashed vegetables, milk and usually heavily infected with the toxin produced by a thick constant in the intestines cause bloody diarrhea revealed.