8 Kids Hospitalized for E. coli in France

PARISEurope is dealing with another E. coli outbreak, this time in France where eight children have been admitted to a hospital after eating hamburgers tainted with another rare strain of E. coli bacteria. French health officials have confirmed the bacteria strain is not the same one that killed nearly 40 people and sickened more than 3,200 in Germany the last few months.

The children, ranging in age from 18 months to 8 years, are being treated in a hospital in northern France for hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), an acute form of kidney failure.

Health authorities said the source of the E. coli is from frozen hamburgers distributed under the "Steaks Country" label and sold through the German discount chain Lidl. The company has recalled 10 tons of the frozen beef patties produced in France at the supermarket chain.