By Rachel Bianco
Source: KNSD-TV
updated 12:15 a.m. PT, Sun., Nov. 2, 2008
San Diego County Health officials are trying to determine where two North County children contracted the illness.
The girls are seven and nine. One has been in the hospital for a week. The other for a few days. Both attend Carmel Creek Elementary School.
Citing privacy laws, school leaders can't confirm the girls are sisters, but they did say they are in very close proximity of one another.
They sent a letter to parents in the Solana Beach School district, but stress, the children did not get sick from eating anything at school and no other students have become ill with E. coli.
"From the beginning what the county reported to us, is that the situation was very, very localized, that our children and students were not in any danger and that there was absolutely no connection to the school,"
said Leslie Faussett Superintendent of the Solana Beach School District. Health officials say symptoms of E. coli include abdominal cramps, bloody diarrhea, and in rare cases , it can cause Kidney failure. The two girls are expected to recover.
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