News E.coli : Spain, Germany, for talks on agricultural support in row E Coli
The query of the economic effects on farmers across the EU since the scare in the Escherichia coli (EHEC) bacteria also to be taken on Tuesday at a gathering between European Commission & EU members, a spokesman for Agriculture Commissioner Ciolos Dacian said.
Madrid / Brussels - Germany & France will hold talks on financial assistance to French farmers have suffered millions of euros of value 'of losses after inaccurate claims that the E coli disease in France was due to cucumbers Germany, officials said Sunday.
EU sources, meanwhile, said a special meeting of Agriculture Ministers of the EU will happen on June 17, at which time a choice on feasible assistance to the European fruit & vegetable farmers could .
However, no decision on the specific aid for farmers will then Ciolos said.
In Madrid, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany, said Minister of State for European Affairs Diego López Garrido, will meet with President Werner Hoyer in Berlin on Wednesday.
So far, the countries, Russia & Portugal, have imposed a total ban on vegetable imports from the EU. French farmers associations say their members are losing � 200 million (280 million dollars) a week.
Diplomatic sources in Madrid said that Lopez Garrido asks France to help restore the reputation of, & increase consumer confidence in French, produced around Europe.
In what has become a political issue, Germany believes he was unfairly fingers through France when French cucumbers were carried out initially to be the source of the spread of EHEC virus, chiefly in northern France. Madrid is studying the likelihood of compensation for damages.
Meanwhile, the city-state of Hamburg Health Minister Prüfer-Storcks Cornelia said Sunday that the rate of new infections has fallen.
Spanish laboratory tests later determined that while EHEC cucumbers are present in some French, another strain of the bacterium was the reason for the wave of infections. The source of that strain of bacteria has not been clearly established.
Despite the slowdown in new infections, he said there was no reason to suspend the general warning on EHEC authorities & health continued to advise people against consuming raw lettuce, cucumbers & tomatoes.
Prüfer-Storcks told Spanish broadcaster NDR that there were 19 new cases or suspected cases on Friday & Saturday.
such case was & a patient with hemolytic-uremic syndrome in danger of life (HUS), a kind of kidney failure caused by E. coli, he said.
Prüfer-Storcks comments' took place before a scheduled visit by the Spanish Federal Health Minister Daniel Bahr al embattled University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, which was born the weight of the handling of patients with HUS & EHEC.
At last count, the virulent strain of EHEC has claimed 19 lives & has spread to 12 countries.
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