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Friday, September 28, 2012

Germany Disease with diarrhea and vomiting wave spreads

More than 6000 children affected

Disease with diarrhea and vomiting wave spreads

Food distribution in a school (Photo: AP)Enlarge ImageThe children apparently infected by the school lunches.The wave of gastrointestinal disorders meets more and more children and young people in East Germany. More than 6000 patients who continue to suffer from diarrhea and vomiting cafeteria food were, according to media Specifying now registered in Saxony, Thuringia, Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt.
The cause of one of the largest national gastrointestinal disease waves of recent years is still open, a spokeswoman for the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). In Berlin, the authorities have norovirus and natural poisons (toxins) as a possible causative agent in sight. From the perspective of the German Society for Hospital Hygiene salmonella or norovirus could be the cause of the disease. "In any case, it must have given hygiene errors in production," board member Klaus-Dieter Zastrow said, referring to the food....