E. Coli Death in France: E. coli Lawyer Pursues Case as Implicated Manager is Given Three Year Sentence
A ten-year-old boy in France has died, after a lengthy fight that lasted years, as a result of an E. coli illness in 2011. Nolan Moitte became ill from a serious E. coli infection after consuming a beef burger, prepared as steak haché, in 2011. Steak haché is a chopped steak dish that is popular in France. Young Nolan passed away on Saturday, September 14, 2019 after a long battle with the complications related to that infection.
After ingesting the contaminated beef, Nolan, who at the time of eating the beef was just two years old, became extremely sick. With severe complications from the poisoning, likely due to his young age, Nolan developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, or HUS, which, according to one highly experience E. coli lawyer affects a relatively small percentage of victims in an E. coli outbreak. HUS is especially dangerous to the elderly and to those of a young age and can lead to complete kidney failure. Nolan was left completely paralyzed and mentally handicap. Nolan’s short post-infection life consisted of medication, feeding tubes and lengthy hospital stays. While most victims of HUS survive, there is a sub-group whose bodies are too frail to fight off the collapse of their kidneys. In this particular case, the family’s e. coli lawyer stated, “his body just gave up.”
Between 12 and 15 other children were infected with similar food poisoning at the time, but Nolan experienced the most significant and severe effects. He is the only victim to die from HUS this incident, though there have been a number of high-profile deaths, as well as HUS cases, in other E. coli outbreaks in recent years.
The frozen beef stakes were purchased from Lidl Supermarket, a popular German supermarket chain. The beef was purchased between May and June of 2011 from SEB-CERF, a food supplier that is now closed and whose manager, Guy Lamorlette, was sent to jail over the incident in 2017 to serve a three year sentence. He was also charged a fine of $50,000 for the E. coli poisoning. The meat was sold under the brand “Steaks Country.” It was contaminated with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli. Shiga toxin-producing E. coli is the cause of most E. coli food poisoning outbreaks.
