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Analyses confirmed: Children of France poisoned with E coli after eating hamburgers have

E. coli bacteria poisoning of children in northern France, was caused by frozen hamburgers produced by the company SEB, according to test results announced Monday by the Food and Health Ministries.

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"Strains of virus found in tests on children were isolated and analyzes samples of hamburgers, including E. coli O157 strain is," announced the two ministries.

As a precaution, the company SEB has already done the withdrawal of the incriminated batch and previous batches and the next.

These tests also confirm that that bacteria, E.coli O157, O104 bacterial strain is different: H4, which caused the deaths of 39 people in Europe, of which 38 in Germany.

According to ministers, eight children were admitted to CHU in Lille, with hemolytic and uremic syndrome cases (HUS), and "six are hospitalized, the".

"Tests have confirmed that six of them followed a food poisoning syndrome caused by a rare strain of E. coli."

CHU Lille said on Monday at noon, that eight children could be discharged home, while a boy, aged two years, was still in a coma in a stable condition.

Investigations continue to determine the origin of hamburgers contamination with these bacteria.

SEB company has 180 employees at Saint-Dizier (northeast) and Guy Larmolette, President and CEO of the company, expressed on Friday, fears of "deadly consequences for the enterprise." 

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