Wisconsin flooding responsible for boy’s kidney disease?
Posted June 30th, 2008 by minortopics | via www.foxnews.comThe recent flooding in Wisconsin is the prime suspect for causing a 6-year-old’s serious kidney disease.
The doctors suspect he’s got a hard-to-detect strain of E. coli bacteria, although a test for a potentially deadly form of it came out negative.
Dr. Ellen Wald says the boy started vomiting three days after he played in a flooded creek near his home.
Authorities have warned repeatedly that flood water may be contaminated by bacteria because sewage plants were overwhelmed during the storms.