E. coli poisonings in Aisne: analyses confirm a link with several butcher shops

The first results of the genomic sequencing of the bacteria "provide irrefutable proof of a correspondence between the bacteria found in several butcher shops or in the meat they sold and the bacteria found in several patients," the prefecture said in a press release.

This establishes "a formal biological link between the place of supply and the contamination of the patients." Among the 30 cases recorded, a figure unchanged since the previous day, are a 73-year-old person and 29 children , including Elise, who died on June 16 at the age of 11. The prefecture indicated Tuesday evening that "the state of health of the infected people is improving," with four remaining hospitalized.