[Foundation-l] California E. Coli Epidemic Reaches Wikipedia Community

[Anthere]

I hope your son get through with no bad memories. My thoughts are with you.

Ant

Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote:
> My 2 year old son, Alexej Martin Merkey, was admitted to Primary 
> Childrens Hospital in Salt lake City this afternoon in
> Serious condition due to our family (and others in Utah) getting exposed 
> to this virulent strain of E. Coli from California
> on contaminated Spinach.   We had some of this crap in our house and 
> alexej ate a some of it, as did my wife and I. 
> They have 14 cases here at present of children 2 and under, and one of 
> them has died (from Idaho). 
> 
> Alexej's photo is here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmerkey if 
> folks don't know who he is.
> 
> Alexej's platelet count was at 83 which is very high (most of them are 
> below 20 due to the damage caused by the toxins from this strain) and
> they feel he will pull through, but his kidneys were having problems 
> late this evening and they told me they might have to put him on 
> dialasys over the weekend.  He was not feeling too well, and its always 
> rough for a 2 year old to have to go through something like this.   They 
> tell me the entero-toxins from this virulent strain of E. Coli cause a 
> lot of damage and the next two days will be bad for him.
> 
> Both my wife and I appear to also have been infected, but since we are 
> adults, out systems dealt with it more effectively.
> 
> Bottom line, DONT BUY OR EAT ANY SPINACH FROM CALIFORNIA FOR NOW.
> 
> All my love.   Hopefully, he will home soon.  
> 
> Jeff