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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 ETEC bacteria are transmitted by food or water contaminated with animal or human feces. Infection occurs when a person eats food or drinks water or ice contaminated with ETEC bacteria.
Infection with ETEC can cause profuse watery diarrhea and abdominal cramping. Fever, nausea with or without vomiting, chills, loss of appetite, headache, muscle aches and bloating can also occur but are less common.
The illness develops one to three days after exposure and usually lasts three to four days, although some infections last more than a week, but it is rarely life-threatening.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more on enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.
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