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In General, for medical assistance to more than 40 people. Now in hospital there are 23 victims.
Patients in Odessa, doctors discovered the causative agent of acute intestinal infection / UNIAN Odessa people who were poisoned bought at the village vanguard Shawarma, revealed Salmonella.

As UNIAN correspondent, about this today at the briefing said the chief doctor of the Odessa city hospital for infectious diseases Svetlana Lavrikova.

“Today, the diagnosis is established, we received laboratory tests, which confirm that it’s Salmonella,” said she.

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According to the chief physician, from 31 August to 2 September inclusive to the infectious diseases hospital has addressed 41 persons. All ate Shawarma, which was acquired in one “point” from 29 to 31 August.

“They did the clinic of acute intestinal infections – high fever, intoxication, vomiting, abdominal pain. All – in different combinations. Was hospitalized for 40 people, one refused hospitalization,” – said Lavrikova.

She noted that among victims – ten children ranging in age from 3 to 17 years. The patients admitted in a state of moderate severity.

According to Lavrikova, currently in hospital there are 23 injured, four of them children. Patients of moderate severity.

As explained by the chief doctor, while the Salmonella detected in the crops of 13 patients, the other tests investigated. However, according to Lavrikova, today we can say that the causative agent of infectious disease present in the body all patients who ate Shawarma.

“The incubation period of any intestinal infection – from two hours to five days. Depends on the amount of food eaten and the characteristics of the human body,” explained Lavrikova.

She also added that in the summer the number of patients with intestinal infections increases significantly. In the last days in Odessa has seen a significant increase. In particular, September 2 in the hospital only 112 people, 1 Sep – 95 people. Of these, 80-90% – with acute intestinal infection.

As reported the UNIAN, September 2, the police opened criminal proceedings on the fact of mass poisoning of people Shawarma in the shopping pavilion in the village of Avangard, Odessa region. The same day at the meeting of the regional Commission on questions tekhnogenno-ecological safety and emergency situations was reported on 37 hospitalized.