Three cases of children’s food poisoning were identified this Saturday, June 21, announced Aisne’s prefecture, which took 14 the total number of children who deal with June 12, including a 12 -year -old daughter who died on Monday.
All these children, most of whom live in the agglomeration of Saint-Quentin, were victims of severe digestive problems with Glairo wandering diarrhea, according to the prefecture.
Among them, eight have developed a serious renal problem, called hemolytic and uremic syndrome (SHU), two of which are new cases recorded on Saturday.
“Four children were able to leave the hospital and return home” and all affected children “are subject to continuous medical monitoring,” the prefecture added in a statement.
State services, including the Prefecture and the Regional Health Agency, “continue their investigations to find the origin of pollution,” said the press release.
The result of the expected collector soon
On Friday, he announced that the sample had been taken in four Saint-Quentin, all preventively closed. The results, at least with respect to the first two butchers, should be known earlier next week.
However, these four butchers do not have a common supplier, according to a spokesman for AISNE prefecture interviewed by AFP, which runs the risk of complicating the search for the origin of pollution.
Samples were also taken within the carnicero department of a supermarket, also closed preventively, said the prefecture on Saturday.
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
