MEDINA, Ohio — Two new cases of potentially deadly E. coli have been confirmed by health officials, bringing the number of cases diagnosed since last week to four.

        The latest cases involve a 12-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman, Pat Stevens, director of nursing for the Medina County Health Department, said Thursday. The previously diagnosed cases were a 1-year-old child and a 10-year-old girl.

        All four are recuperating at home.

        Except for the infant, all of those who became ill attended a Halloween attraction called the Carnival of Horrors at the Medina County Fairgrounds. Twenty-seven previous cases in August were traced to the Medina County Fair.

        Health officials closed the haunted house last Thursday after the first two new E. coli cases were confirmed.

        The E. coli bacterium is typically transmitted through contaminated drinking water, undercooked meat or animal feces.

        Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report that linked the previous cases to contaminated water and ice used by food vendors over the last three days of the fair.

        The report, though preliminary, theorized that standing water from the animal barns was siphoned into the same water system used by about eight food vendors. Traces of cattle feces, a known carrier of E. coli bacteria, likely led to the contamination.

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