Aisne. Food poisoning: three new cases reported, 14 children affected in total.
Three new cases of food poisoning among children were reported this Saturday in the Aisne department, bringing the total number of children treated since June 12 to 14.
The severe food poisoning that has affected Saint-Quentin, in the Aisne region, is gaining momentum. Three new cases were recorded this Saturday, bringing to 14 the total number of children taken into care since June 12, including the 12-year-old girl who died on Monday .
All of these children, the majority of whom live in the Saint-Quentin metropolitan area, suffered from severe digestive problems with mucous-filled, bloody diarrhea. Eight of them developed a serious kidney problem called hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), including two of the new cases recorded this Saturday. "Four children were able to leave the hospital and return home," and all affected children "are receiving ongoing medical monitoring," the prefecture said in a statement.
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State services, including the prefecture and the Regional Health Agency, "are continuing their investigations to find the source of the contamination." On Friday, the prefecture announced that samples had been taken from four butcher shops in Saint-Quentin, all of which had been closed as a precaution . The results, at least for the first two butcher shops, should be known early next week. However, these four butcher shops do not have a common supplier, according to a spokesperson for the Aisne prefecture interviewed by AFP, which could complicate the search for the source of the contamination. Samples were also taken from the butcher's section of a supermarket, which was also closed as a precaution.
A rare infectious disease, "most often foodborne," HUS occurs in most cases as a complication of poisoning by a bacterium from the Escherichia coli (E. coli) family. It affects 100 to 165 children in France each year, according to Public Health France.
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