Over a 3-month period in France in 1997, 10 children within a small distance of 15 km developed HUS, and the Stx2-producing phage EAEC O111:H2 was isolated from five of the children’s stools (Boudailliez et al., 1997; Morabito et al., 1998). Here, STX2 is linked to hemolytic-uremic syndrome.