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August 29th, 2008
Posted: 09:07 PM ET
(CNN) — Oklahoma health officials said Friday they are searching for the source of a rare form of E. coli that has killed one person and sickened 115 others in the northeastern part of the state. The subtype of bacteria — called E. coli 0111 — is “not normally found in this form of outbreak,” said Leslea Bennett-Webb, director of communication for the Oklahoma State Department of Health. She said the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has helped state officials determine the subtype, but said the cause of the outbreak remains unknown. “The focus has been narrowed to the Country Cottage Restaurant located in Locust Grove,” she said, noting that most of the people who became ill ate there between August 15 and August 23. Tests carried out on water from a well on restaurant property indicate the presence of bacteria, but “we have not been able to confirm what kind of bacteria,” said Skylar McElhaney, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality. |
 
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