What to know: Officials with the Food and Drug Administration are continuing to investigate several foodborne illness outbreaks.

For an outbreak of E. coli O145:H28 infections, the FDA has begun sample testing, but has not reported what it is testing. The outbreak has sickened 11 people but the agency has not reported the patients’ ages or where they live. The outbreak was first posted on May 14.

Latvian health officials have completed their investigation into an outbreak and general rise in E. coli which led to almost 80 sick people.

The Center for Disease Prevention and Control (SPKC) said the epidemiological investigation revealed 77 infections caused by E. coli from March 19 to April 16.

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Scientists have described the main lessons learned from the use of whole genome sequencing (WGS) of E. coli in France.

WGS is routine for surveillance of Shiga toxin–producing E. coli (STEC) human isolates. Experts assessed implementation of WGS between 2018 and 2022 for 1,002 sequenced isolates.

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