Three new cases of children’s food poisoning have been identified in the AISNE and its surroundings since Thursday night, which raised the total to 11 cases, the prefecture announced in a statement this Friday, June 20.
All these children have been victims of severe digestive symptoms (bloody diarrhea) since June 12, according to the prefecture. Among them, six “have developed hemolytic and uremic syndrome (SHU), one of which is unfortunately deceased.” She is a 12 -year -old girl.
Among the three new intoxicated children, one is in the agglomeration of Saint-Faquentin (Aisne), where the first cases occurred, and another resides in the Marne but consumed meat from a Saint-Quenning carnage store whose activity was suspended by the prefecture, the latter details.
“One last case is being invested, identified (Friday) at night,” is specified.
Do not consume the food of these butchers
As caution and results of pending analysis, the prefecture asks the population “that no longer consumes the foods bought in four butcherías” of Saint-Quentin, whose names and addresses have revealed.
The activity of the first two butchers has been suspended since Thursday, the Prefecture explained Friday morning that sick children had “consumed meat or meat products” of these two establishments a few days before the symptoms.
Since then, “the investigations have spread to new establishments in which samples have been taken,” said the prefecture.
100 to 165 children affected per year
The results of the analysis of these meat samples, at least with respect to the first two butchers, “should be known earlier next week,” said the prefecture on Friday morning.
The samples were sent to the National Reference Laboratory in Marcy-L’Etoile in the Rodne, and a survey related to the traceability of the meats used was dedicated.
Rare infectious disease, “more often of food origin”, shu occurs in most cases as a complication of poisoning to a bacterium of the family of Escherichia coli (E. coli). It affects 100 to 165 children in France each year, according to Public Health France.
Source: BFM TV
