From the epidemic to the rumor, there is only one step. In a few days, 19 children from Saint-Fag (AISNE) were victims of food poisoning that cost a 12-year-old girl. And since then, the subject has been on everyone’s lips and has become the object of a real psychosis.
“In front of the school, we feel this air conditioning, there are many worried parents,” he says in the parking lot of the Esting, who comes to deposit his little daughter who does not have lunch in the canteen. In front of the grid, after lunch this Monday, June 23, the parents exchanged discreetly. Theories are fuses, sometimes until they approach the conspiracy.
“I am very worried, especially for a few days, in the position of Saint-Quentin, they found an envelope with dust. I do not want to accuse anyone, but I wonder if something did not happen with this dust,” he wonders on the Gérard Elementary School Network, a 63-year-old father.
A hospital stone launch, a family hopes to have seen other information on Facebook, however denied, which implies drinking water. “What it seems, we must avoid drinking tap water. We hear so much on the Internet that we are afraid, we pay attention to everything,” said a mother of two children, one would suffer symptoms just like her husband.
During the last ten days and the appearance of the first cases, anxiety has increased. Questions and theories that have time to establish themselves, while uncertainties accumulate from the beginning. What is the exact origin of this black series? The suspicions become meat sold in six butchers, including two supermarket shelves.
A hyperlocalized phenomenon that awakens the painful memory of the Buitoni matter, where the pizzas made in the north had led to the death of two children after the appearance of the same bacteria, E.Coli.
“The director called me this morning to tell me to look for my daughter.”
In the city of approximately 50.00, it is not difficult to find people affected by this episode. “Someone from my family has been moved, a seven -year -old boy who is hospitalized and in a coma. Frankly, he is really scary,” said Khaoula, mother of six children recently installed in the city.
“I look at my children, especially at night, but for the moment, they have no symptoms. I totally avoid buying meat, it scares me too much,” he adds.
For families, life has changed abruptly. Some stop consuming meat completely, emptied their refrigerators and turned to their freezers. Others eliminate their children from the dining rooms despite the absence of a link with poisoning. And the slightest damage shows exacerbated concerns.
“The director called me this morning to tell me to come to look for my daughter, she has vomiting … you should not panic, it may have nothing to do with that, she was very hot this weekend. But we are worried, like all the parents, especially after the little one died,” says Gérard, who says he has made a barbecue a few days before.
A limited number of meat vendors has seen their stores closed during health surveys carried out by state services. But no more can be taken to the inhabitants to temporarily turn towards a vegetarian diet. “Today I had about fifteen, against 50 to 80 in normal times,” blows Fabrice, a cold lake of the city whose trade remains open.
“I think everyone is afraid, we listen to many versions, so we really don’t know. People no longer want to eat meat, but we don’t know if it’s beef, sheep … We don’t know,” laments the artisan. Analysis whose results are expected for the end of the week should make it possible to elucidate this problem.
More than 200 calls to a line for worried parents
In these exceptional circumstances that mix anxiety and unknown, the Prefecture decided to configure a unit of information and listening. The call tones are linked there as so many messages of anguish. An avalanche of questions from parents seeking to be reassured for their children or by themselves, and more than 200 calls in three days.
“I stop you, I don’t touch desserts or fried potatoes …”, assures a mother Nadine Lombardi, assistant to the Cabinet director for Aisne Prefecture, during an exchange.
“We respond to all the calls that the population would need, we mainly have residents concerned with their children and themselves after buying meats (…) If there are symptoms, we send them back to 15,” explains the director of security within the prefecture.
The objective: reassure, present the situations of each one and distill good practices. If problematic meat has been bought and remains in the refrigerator or freezer, you must get rid of it. Follow elementary hygiene instructions, such as hand washing. And, especially in the youngest, monitor the potential appearance of symptoms.
Precautions that must be maintained whenever the alert does not rise. In terms of health, research continues. But after the death of a girl, these hospitalizations also arrive for justice. The Saint-Faith prosecution announced the opening of a preliminary investigation against X “of the homicide mansions,” “involuntary injuries”, “endangering the lives of others” and “deception about the goods that present a danger to human life,” according to a statement.
Source: BFM TV
