A Salmonella outbreak in Europe that may have been ongoing since 2012 is believed to be responsible for the recent death of a child in Croatia and is suspected to be wider spread than originally thought.
The outbreak has been traced by multiple countries to eggs from Poland.
Recalls are ongoing across Europe and in Hong Kong, as seven countries are reporting a total of 260 illnesses between May 1 and Oct. 12 this year. Of those cases, 112 are confirmed and 148 are listed as probable.
A joint technical report issued Thursday by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) came out as the Centre for Food Safety in Hong Kong was warning consumers and foodservice operators to look for the eggs and discard them.
“The first isolates belonging to one of the (whole genome sequence) WGS clusters associated with this outbreak were identified in 2012. The number of confirmed and probable cases has increased steadily since May 2016,” according to the joint report.
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