The inhabitants of Saint-Quentin finally have an answer. The poisoning wave in the E. coli bacteria, of which a child of mid-June died, is in relation to the meat marketed in butcherías in this commune of Aisne, according to the results of the sequencing of the genome presented by the Regional Health Agency of Hauts-de-France and the prefecture of this Wednesday, July 2.
The results “provide irrefutable correspondence between the bacteria found within several of the butchers or the meat they have marketed and the bacteria found in several patients,” the AR and the Prefecture affirm. The purpose of this sequence was to determine that the victims had been contaminated with the same bacteria, which was taken from several butchers in the city.
30 cases of poisoning have been identified since mid -June. Among the 30 cases are a 73 -year -old person and 29 children, including Elise, who died on June 16 at age 11. The prosecutor of Paris, in charge of the investigation, said Tuesday that the youngest child was an 11 -month -old female sex.
Five points of sale identified
The prosecution of Saint-Quentin, which had opened a preliminary investigation carried out by involuntary homicide, involuntary injuries, danger and deception aggravated by the endangulator of human health, died on June 25 for the benefit of the Public Health Center of the Office of the Prosecutor of Paris, with respect to the number of victims and the complexity of the investments.
The interviews conducted by the health authorities had made it possible to “quickly identify meat consumption as a common point among the different patients and identify the places of supply consumed,” explains the prefecture in a press release. The investigations have identified four butchers of Saint-Quentin, as well as the carnicero department of a supermarket, possibly having sold contaminated meat in the E.Coli.
“The outstanding of common consumption points among patients, as well as the absence of new cases with recent symptoms for several days, have reinforced specific sources of pollution,” the prefecture develops in their press release. “The results of the genomic sequencing confirm the formal biological bond of contamination between supply places and patients,” he adds. The butchers in question were closed administratively between June 19 and 22.
The health status of the victims “improvement”
Prefecture and Ars recommend to all who bought products from the butchers worried to throw them and clean their refrigerator. “If you or your children have consumed food from these establishments, observe your health status,” you also recommend to the authorities and “make 15 without delay in the case of weight diarrhea to Glairo.” “If you or your children have no symptoms, it is not necessary to contact or consult a doctor, or call 15,” they add.
“The health status of all contaminated people is improving,” Aisne prefecture said Tuesday night. “Four are still hospitalized and no more dialysis,” the prefecture added in a statement.
Two surveys, one of the epidemiological health and a judiciary, are carried out in parallel and “will have bridges between them,” said the prosecutor of Paris, Laure Beccuau. It has not excluded other cases, if people defrost and consume previously bought meat, specifying that the “development and appearance of symptoms is between 10 and 15 days.”
The prosecutor emphasized that the last two cases were linked to “secondary pollution, by the hands. That is to say that a contaminated person had left the bathroom without washing his hands well, and holding the hands of another person who will suddenly be contaminated.”
Source: BFM TV
