A two-year-old boy has died after contracting E. Coli at a petting zoo, San Diego’s KNSD-TV reports. At least three other children are believed to have contracted the potentially-deadly bacterium as well.
The young boy, whose name was not released, had visited a petting zoo at the San Diego County Fair on June 24, and he died that same day. Three other children, between the ages of 2 and 13, also contracted E. Coli from animals at the fair, but none of them were sick enough to be hospitalized. They had been to the fair between June 8 and June 15.
It remains unclear, as of this writing, what animals the boy had been in contact with, or even which animal or animals may have been carrying the bacterium. However in an abundance of caution, county officials have shut down the petting zoo as well as all other areas of the fair where the general public could have contact with animals.
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