Nursery 'not to blame' for infection

By Laura Marcus, Nursery World, 5 July 2007

Independent investigators have said they cannot pinpoint the source of an outbreak of E.coli 0157 in a Scottish nursery last year.

Careshare Lauder Nursery in Dumfermline was cleared of any negligence regarding the outbreak, which left five nursery children seriously ill in May 2006. The board of NHS Fife received an Incident Control Team (ICT) report and an independent review last week. Dr Mike Roworth, author of the report and chairman of the ICT team, said, 'Despite detailed and exhaustive investigation, we concluded that it was not possible to say what the source of outbreak was, but the most likely scenario was a single introduction of...

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