Dec 2nd, 2022
2 mins
A multi-country Salmonella outbreak has resulted in nearly 200 people becoming sick since September 2021.
At the time of writing, there are 196 reported cases of Salmonella Mbandaka ST413, of which 8 were in the UK, the remaining cases were spread across Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Israel. Nineteen of the total number cases were hospitalised and five had septicaemia. One case in the UK resulted in death.
Based on case interviews from Finland and the UK, ready-to-eat chicken products and/or fresh chicken meat are the likely vehicles of infection.
Following investigations, the food safety authority in Finland linked the suspected RTE products to an Estonian company, however, this link could not be verified by the identification of batches nor by microbiological evidence. The Estonian company received processed chicken meat from different suppliers, and its role as a source of infection could not be established.
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