“Closed the kiosk inside the zoo”
alert Salmonella in Campania after a case of infection contracted by a 10-year-old boy from Salerno. The little one, about a week ago, together with his family had arrived in Naples for a visit to the Fuorigrotta Zoo where he consumed a hot dog in a kiosk in the park. Seizures also in Caserta.
The day after returning home to Salerno, the minor felt ill accusing important gastrointestinal symptoms and such as to require hospitalization, which then took place in the Ruggi hospital in Salerno. Symptoms later also accused by a 10-month-old brother to whom the infection was evidently transmitted by the fecal-oral route due to contaminated objects or food. During the hospitalization, at the same time as the start of antibiotic therapy and the administration of a drip to rehydrate the little one, replenish the fluids lost with vomiting and diarrhea and keep the fever and infection at bay, the various batteries of infectious tests that are always applied in these cases to identify the origin of the toxinfection. The search for viruses and bacteria gave positive results for Salmonellamicrobe that causes foodborne infections and fully compatible with the symptoms developed by the child.
The epidemiological investigation to trace the contagion has identified the probable cause of the infection in the sandwich eaten in Naples at the Zoo. The health checks are therefore passed to the Asl Napoli 1 which, on the same day of notification of the report a few days ago, first identified the kiosk, then suspended the catering activities and finally seized the foodstuffs present in it for the analysis of the case. Following the meticulous analytical checks conducted by the specialized laboratory of theZooprophylactic Institute yesterday the presence of the microorganism was confirmed. Hence the immediate epidemiological alert triggered throughout the Campania region. The ASL Napoli 1 and also the others competent for the area north and south of Naples, including the other four of the other provinces of the region are carrying out checks and withdrawals from supermarkets. Meanwhile, also in the Caserta area, the local health authority withdrew some lots of frankfurters from supermarkets yesterday following a series of samples taken by the veterinary services and sent to the Istituto Zooprofilattico del Mezzogiorno. It’s about Wurstel Lecock chicken and Scarlino turkey in packs of 10 units of 100 grams expiring on 2 March 2023, produced by a salami factory in Lecce and distributed in many sales outlets in Campania and the province of Caserta. To those who have purchased it, the ASL advises not to consume the product at all but to bring it back to where it was purchased.
«At risk Salmonella – warnings Maria Triassi, president of the School of Medicine and specialist in Hygiene – are all undercooked meats, especially poultry, frankfurters, turkey, but also eggs, dairy products. The bacterium has an incubation of 12 to 36/72 hours and dies during cooking. The advice is to always cook the foods consumed well, even in pubs. Unlike typhus and paratyphoid, the symptoms are less important and resolve in 4 or 5 days of treatment».