Three new cases of food poisoning of children were identified on Saturday, announced the prefecture of Aisne, bringing to 14 the total number of children taken care of since June 12, including a 12 -year -old daughter who died on Monday. All these children, a majority of whom live in the agglomeration of Saint-Quentin, have been victims of severe digestive problems with glairo-wandering diarrhea, according to the prefecture.
Among them, eight have developed a serious kidney problem, called hemolytic and uremic syndrome (SHU), two of which are new cases recorded on Saturday.
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“Four children were able to leave the hospital and regain their homes” and all the children affected “are the subject of continuous medical follow -up,” added the prefecture in a statement. State services, including the prefecture and the regional health agency, “continue their investigations to find the origin of contamination,” said the press release.
Friday, she announced that samples had been taken in four butcheries in Saint-Quentin, all closed preventively. The results, at least concerning the first two butchers, should be known at the start of next week.
However, these four butchers have no common supplier, according to a spokesperson for the Aisne prefecture interviewed by AFP, which risks complicating the search for the origin of contamination.
Samples were also taken within the butcher’s department of a supermarket, also closed preventively, said the prefecture on Saturday.
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Rare infectious disease, “most often of food origin”, the Shu occurs in most cases as a complication of intoxication to a bacteria from the family of Escherichia coli (E. coli). It affects 100 to 165 children in France each year, according to Public Health France.
