by Caroline Thompson | Sep 17, 2024
Kingston’s Story Age 7 September 2023 Location: Appalachian State Fair Petting Zoo (Outbreak) Source: secondary infection from sibling who attended petting zoo Disease: Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) Days hospital: 3 days in the hospital Two of my children...
by Caroline Thompson | Sep 17, 2024
Serenity’s Story Age: 22 months May 2024 Location: Virginia Source: Lake Anna (Outbreak) Infection: Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) Disease: Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) Days Hospitalized: 6 Days of Dialysis: 2 Sunday May 26, 2024, our family went to Lake...
by Caroline Thompson | Sep 17, 2024
Carter’s Story Age 8 May 2024 Location: Virginia Source: Lake Anna (Outbreak) Infection: Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) Disease: Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) Days Hospitalized: 13 Days of Dialysis: 5 Sunday, May 26, 2024 our family went to Lake Anna over...
by Caroline Thompson | Sep 17, 2024
Emma’s Story Age 8 May 2024 Location: Virginia Source: Lake Anna (Outbreak) Infection: Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) Days Hospitalized: 6 Sunday, May 26, 2024 our family went to Lake Anna over the Memorial Day weekend. We had awonderful, fun day spending...
by Caroline Thompson | Sep 17, 2024
Tynlee’s Story Age 9 (now 13) July 2020 Location: Washington (now lives in Tennessee) Source: Family Cow Infection: Siga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) Disease: Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) Days Hospitalized: 21 In July of 2020, our family of five was living...
by Caroline Thompson | Sep 17, 2024
Scarlett’s Story June 2022 Age: age 17 months Source: Louisiana Petting Zoo, Goats Infection: Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) Disease: Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) Days Hospitalized: 75 Days of Dialysis: 25 Our beautiful daughter Scarlett was 17 months...
by Caroline Thompson | Sep 6, 2024
Claire’s Story Age: 4 October 2023 Location :Missouri Infection: Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) Disease: Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) Days Hospitalized: 45Day of Inpatient Rehabilitation: 3 monthsDays of Dialysis: 23 Jacob’s Story Age: 2 October...
by Caroline Thompson | Sep 6, 2024
by Caroline Thompson | Sep 6, 2024
Nicholas’ Story Age 2 (currently age 21) Location : Titusville, FL(lived and was hospitalized in Orlando at that time) Source: Petting zoo Infection: Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) Disease: Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) Days hospitalized: 36 daysDays of...
by Caroline Thompson | May 17, 2024
by Caroline Thompson | May 17, 2024
Connor’s Story April 14, 2023 Location : Source: Disease: HUS from STEC (E. coli 0157:H7) Days hospitalized: 19 On April 12, 2023, Connor, our 20-month-old, began showing signs of what we assumed to be a stomach bug. At the time we had a 7-day old newborn,...
by Caroline Thompson | May 17, 2024
Blake’s Story April 2024 Location : Cookeville, TN Source: cattle Disease: HUS from suspected STEC (E. coli 0157:H7) Days hospitalized: 9 On March 25th, 2024, Blake was complaining of abdominal pain, and diarrhea. We initially thought that he had eaten...
