Berlin (CNN) -- Four more deaths have been confirmed by German health officials Friday bringing the total number of European deaths from an E. coli outbreak to 31. All but one were in Germany.
The number of people infected with E. coli now stands at 2,988, of whom 759 have the severe form of the intestinal illness. Though the rate of infection is slowing down, officials at the Robert Koch Institut said the number of infections will continue to rise.
But even as investigators identified the source of an E. coli outbreak, officials warned the threat was not over because authorities cannot definitively say how or where the sprouts that were identified as the source were infected.
Investigators determined bean sprouts were the cause of the outbreak after 17 people became ill after eating at the same restaurant, Reinhard Burger, president of the Robert Koch Institute, told reporters.
June 10, 2011 -- Updated 1427 GMT (2227 HKT)
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