Overview

• A one-year-old boy from Belluno is being treated in pediatric nephrology in Padua after developing hemolytic uremic syndrome linked to raw-milk cheese.
• Health teams traced the child’s recent food exposures across multiple locations and gathered samples for laboratory analysis.
• Specimens were sent to the Istituto Zooprofilattico delle Venezie to confirm Shiga-toxin–producing E. coli and pinpoint the source.
• This is the third pediatric HUS case recorded in the Belluno area in nine months, following cases in November 2024 and July 2025.
• Usl Dolomiti urges parents to use pasteurized milk for young children and to serve only well-cooked foods with careful hygiene.