Two men aged 40 and 47 are hospitalized in the Berazategui district of Buenos Aires with diarrhea, vomiting and fever, one of them in serious condition, after having eaten meat, after two others died in the same town due to a possible outbreak of food origin being investigated by the Ministry of Health of the province of Buenos Aires.
The four cases of acute diarrhea occurred in the first three weeks of January, three were treated at the Evita Pueblo Hospital and one at a private clinic, both establishments in the municipality of Berazategui, and all had a history of recent ingestion of meat and derivatives. indicated today a statement from the Buenos Aires Health portfolio.
One of the patients is 47 years old, he started with symptoms of diarrhea, vomiting and fever on January 17 and was admitted on the 20th. In this regard, the Ministry confirmed that he “evolves unfavorably with multiple organ failure.”
“He is in the Intensive Care Unit, with mechanical respiratory assistance,” added the statement, which also indicated that the man reported having consumed sausages and steaks purchased at a Berazategui butcher shop.
In this case, no virus or bacteria have yet been identified and the blood culture (blood culture) is in process.
The other inmate is a 40-year-old man, a dealer of offal and pork, who also said he had eaten meat from the same butcher shop as one of the deceased; In this case, he started symptoms on January 14 and the next day he consulted for fever and symptoms compatible with erysipelas (an outbreak on the skin) to which diarrhea was added.
This patient remains hospitalized in stable condition, with good evolution and it was identified that the person had salmonella sp. Meanwhile, the municipality of Berazategui reported yesterday that two people had died with similar symptoms, after eating meat.
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