Daycare Disaster: 300+ Kids Sick from E. coli Outbreak

Real Talk Ryan Jespersen · Sep 14, 2023 · 1h 31m

Imagine what hundreds of parents in Calgary are going through right now. Their kids are terribly sick with a rare form of E. coli because the daycare they trusted served food from a cockroach-infested kitchen. At least twenty of those kids are in hospital, seven of them on dialysis. Meantime, the daycares are cleared to re-open: who'd want to send their kids back...but what options to many of those families have?

5:55 | ER Dr. Shazma Mithani explains what's so unique about this type of E. coli, and helps us understand the severe complication known as hemolytic uremic syndrome, a disease that…