E Coli Alert

Daily Express Headline;says: 'Customers of one of Britain’s biggest supermarket chains were on UK-wide alert last night after an outbreak of the deadly e.coli 0157 food bug killed one woman and left two people fighting for their lives.Four other people are recovering at home as a result of the infection involving retail giant Morrisons and a new case was confirmed as an elderly woman on holiday in Ireland ended up in hospital. Public health specialists were yesterday desperately trying to narrow down the cause of the outbreak which was described as being in its “very early days”. But it is understood around 80 different kinds of cold meats from around 12 different firms supplying Morrisons 435 UK stores, are under suspicion. Sliced cold meats have been withdrawn from sale at the two Morrisons stores in Scotland where the victims shopped and customers have been told not to eat any that have been bought there.