France records 1st E. coli death

[July 02, 2011]  PARIS (AP) -- Authorities have recorded France's first death from the European E. coli outbreak.

Health officials in Bordeaux said the 78-year-old woman died early Saturday morning.

She had been hospitalized in Bordeaux since June 24 with hemolytic uremic syndrome -- the rare kidney condition that the most seriously ill victims of the outbreak are suffering from.

[Associated Press]

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