The man's identity is not being revealed until his family has been notified, but Health Department officials said he had visited the Washington County Fair on Aug. 28 and 29, as have all of the primary cases of E. coli. She died Sept. 4 after developing HUS and brain damage as a result of the infection. The 20-foot deep well No. 6 is located 83 feetfrom a cow barn at the fairgrounds and runoff from a heavy rainstorm is believed to have allowed water containing cow manure to get into the well. There had been concerns of E. coli among fair officials and two wells had been closed this year and two wells were chlorinated, but the crowd of more than 100,000 people attending the fair in combination with the drought resulted in the fair officials falling back on the auxiliary water system and the untreated wells. There are several strains of E. coli, many harmless, that live in the intestinal tract of humans and mammals.
Transmission comes from contaminated food, water or from an infected person handling food.
She said people seem to be heeding the directions from the state to keep infected people home and away from handling food until they test negative for the bacteria. Chlorine can kill E. coli, but the state cannot require chlorination for private wells. K Fl gstad . Visit the Sales and advertising .for advertisement information.