The Coming Crisis:  E. coli breaks out in France, 5 children are in the hospital.  Five children admitted to a hospital in northern France after eating beefburgers infected with a stain of E. coli bacteria are seriously ill, health officials said on Thursday, fanning fears of a wider outbreak.  Officials said the bacteria did not appear to be related to the lethal strain of E. coli that has killed 37 people and made 3,000 ill, most of them in northern Germany.  A privately owned German discount chain, Lidl, withdrew boxes of the frozen beefburgers believed to be behind the French infections.  The boxes were sold under the brand "Steaks Country" and had expiry dates of May 10, 11 and 12 officials said.  On Wednesday, six children, aged between 20 months and eight years and from different towns in the Pas de Calais region, were taken to a hospital in Lille after suffering bouts of bloody diarrhea.  One was released, but five are in serious condition and still being treated at the hospital.  Three are being treated with hemodialysis, a method of removing waste products from the blood in the case of kidney failure. 

My Comments:  Between Germany and France, this is 3,000+ people ill, with 37 deaths so far.  Nevertheless, if we are living in the very last days, before the coming of Christ, we will have major pandemics that will make this pale in comparison.  I know for a Biblical fact that we are living in the last days and the return of Jesus is imminent, so it is time to pray and get ready spiritually to be take out of tribulation ahead.  "There will be great earthquakes in various places, famines and pestilences, and there will be fearful sights and great signs in heaven" Luke 21:11.  Jesus also said, "Watch and pray always that you might be accounted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass and stand before the Son of man" Luke 21:36.