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A 17-year-old lady has been left combating for her life in intensive care after catching a lethal pressure of E.coli from a Christmas market. Antonia Hay, from Buckinghamshire, has been in hospital for 2 weeks after what medical doctors assume is STEC-HUS, attributable to E-coli O157.

She is believed to have contracted it from a Christmas market in Great Missenden. After being admitted, she has had a number of operations, together with one to take away a part of her bowel, and a blood transfusion.

Her older sister, Jemima Hay, began a GoFundMe the place she wrote: “She is currently lucky to be alive and has continued to show amazing determination and strength throughout this time, despite the immense stress, pain and trauma – all combined with an extreme phobia of injections.”

Antonia was allowed to return dwelling on Christmas Day to spend time together with her household earlier than being re-admitted on Boxing Day resulting from kidney failure.

Her father, Steve Hay, wrote on Facebook: “To anyone who may have experienced food poisoning symptoms at any restaurant, establishment or any market stall in Great Missenden during the Christmas Market, particularly on or from November 25, please can you PM me.

“My center daughter (17) is combating for her life after a critical bacterial an infection (e-coli) suspected from consuming one thing round this time and we now have sturdy theories, however simply must know if anybody else was affected with any stage of abdomen points or sickness (together with abdomen cramps or diarrhoea 1-10 days afterwards). Public Health / Bucks Health / UKHSA all conscious.”

Antonia is now worried about how the illness will impact the rest of her life. Jemima said: “Anybody who has met Antonia will know that she is essentially the most form, caring, outgoing particular person and lights up any room she walks into.

“Despite going through the toughest time in her life, all she has cared about is everybody else and how they are feeling, still trying to make everybody laugh.”

According to the NHS, solely a small quantity of individuals go on to develop HUS from this pressure of E.coli. This explicit pressure is present in contaminated meals, contaminated animals and from coming into contact with others who’ve the identical pressure.

The GoFundMe has at present exceeded the goal of £5,000 in simply 24 hours and has now raised greater than £8,000.  Recently, 30 individuals have grow to be sick from an E.coli outbreak after consuming artisan cheese.

Four sorts of Mrs Kirkham’s Lancashire cheese have been urgently recalled because of this.