A toddler who got sick after visiting the petting zoo at the Oxford County Fair remains in fair condition at Maine Medical Center.

State officials won’t confirm the death, but say two children were hospitalized with symptoms of E. coli and both had visited the Oxford County Fair.

The much larger spaces better meet the needs of today’s surgeries and will be used primarily for brain and spine procedures.

At a daylong conference in Portland, doctors and other health care providers say treatment specialists, police, the medical community and others need to work together.