Finland – At least a hundred children became ill with diarrhea, the cause was revealed Salmonella – “There are likely to be more cases,” says the doctor

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Young children in particular have been suffering from diarrhea in Central Finland since last week. Diarrhea has been increasing in various parts of the province, and the pediatric ward of the Central Hospital of Central Finland has been filled with symptomatic children.

All the cases we know are united by the fact that the patients are children in care in kindergartens, but the children have been in care in different kindergartens, says Mia Kapanen , the leading environmental health inspector for environmental health in the Jyväskylä region.

– Food is brought to these kindergartens from somewhere else. We still don’t know if all kindergartens bring food from the same place, Mia Kapanen explains.

“But already on Thursday, it has been possible to rule out that the disease does not come from drinking or bathing water,” he continues.

– It strongly seems that the salomella bacterium has been in the food available on Friday, Kapanen states and justifies the matter with the salmonella bacterium’s germination period of a few days and the fact that children’s illnesses have been detected in the early part of the Midsummer week.

However, with 100% certainty, the origin of salmonella infection may not be clear. The bacterium may be present in food that came in different batches and the contaminated batch may not have ended up in a frozen safety sample.