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Friday, September 28, 2012

Germany- Noroviruses or school lunches - diarrhea cause still unclear



Search for the cause is a race against time - There are conflicting hypotheses

Chemnitz. In the search for the cause of the wave of vomiting and diarrhea in schools in Saxony, Thuringia, Brandenburg and Berlin, the authorities are still groping in the dark. Saxony Health Ministry announced on Friday that there was a "first sign of norovirus" as the cause. When Berlin's Robert Koch Institute (RKI), which is investigating the nationwide expansion of the disease wave, however, argue that this is cause for very unlikely.
Seasons Because it is not unreasonable that are currently found among the more than 6500 patients nationwide sporadic norovirus sufferers RKI spokeswoman Susanne Glasmacher said Friday the "Free Press". Each year we counted over 100,000 norovirus cases in Germany. The transmitted from person-to-person infection does not explain, however, the current dimension of the simultaneous outbreak of diseases. "That does not lay within two hours flat entire school classes," judged the RKI spokeswoman. As before, you go out of a food-borne infection, since many of the affected facilities were supplied by the same food suppliers. The supplier in question has a responsibility according to internal investigations so far by itself, has tightened its hygiene standards, but by its own account.
The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety now coordinates the research on the origin and distribution channels of the food. At the country level official run laboratory tests of food samples. In Thuringia, where the State Office of foodstuffs examined samples from the menus suspected standing service, results were still pending yesterday...  http://www.freiepresse.de/NACHRICHTEN/TOP-THEMA/Noroviren-oder-Schulessen-Durchfall-Ursache-noch-unklar-artikel8109910.php