A Salmonella outbreak linked to horse meat from Romania sickened 25 people in France this past year, according to a new report.
Eleven cases were men and 14 were women. They ranged from 2 to 90 years of age and the median was 68 years old.
In September 2019, the regional unit of Santé Publique France in the Hauts-de-France region was alerted to a spike in Salmonella Bovismorbificans notifications in Nord and Pas-de-Calais during the first two weeks of August, found by the National Reference Center for E. coli, Salmonella and Shigella at Institut Pasteur.
The 25 salmonellosis cases, belonging to the same genomic cluster, were identified between Aug. 4 and 26, 2019. Nine people needed hospital treatment and two had severe complications but none died.
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