Spanish wedding crashed by suspected Salmonella outbreak

I just returned from spending a couple of weeks in the northlands of Canada; the trip was scheduled around attending a couple of weddings. Dani and I didn’t really have much of a shindig when we were married (just a quiet dinner with close friends after being married Arrested Development-style at the Evergreen Senior’s Center). But it was a really nice meal.

Not so much for attendees of a wedding in Osuna (Seville) Spain earlier this month. Over 100 friends and family of the bride and groom have come down with symptoms of salmonellosis. According to the somewhat poorly translated story, only one guest has been hospitalized.

Europa Press [reports] that the results of the epidemiological inquiry carried out by the services of public health of the network of epidemiological surveillance “have already confirmed that this is an infection by salmonella”. However, specified “still have to wait at least one week” to determine whether such toxiinfección by salmonella “is related or not with food eaten” at the wedding celebration.

Epidemiological research has focused on surveys to those affected and the collection of stool, which is also expected to meet consumed foods that could be source of the outbreak toxiinfeccioso. So far, those affected have presented a picture of gastroenteritis with high fever, vomiting and diarrhea “suspect that food toxiinfección for salmonella”, although this diagnosis can only be confirmed once obtained the above results of crops of feces that have been made.

 

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Dr. Ben Chapman is a professor and food safety extension specialist at North Carolina State University. As a teenager, a Saturday afternoon viewing of the classic cable movie, Outbreak, sparked his interest in pathogens and public health. With the goal of less foodborne illness, his group designs, implements, and evaluates food safety strategies, messages, and media from farm-to-fork. Through reality-based research, Chapman investigates behaviors and creates interventions aimed at amateur and professional food handlers, managers, and organizational decision-makers; the gate keepers of safe food. Ben co-hosts a biweekly podcast called Food Safety Talk and tries to further engage folks online through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and, maybe not surprisingly, Pinterest. Follow on Twitter @benjaminchapman.