The Swedish government is investigating a recent backlog of reported cases of Cryptosporidium.
A total of 61 other people have been shown to be inflamed with the same type of Cryptosporidium parvum. They have been infected from September 25 to October 10 and live in 10 other regions of the country.
Of the cases presented, 41 are female and 20 male. They range in age from 11 to 86 with an average age of 44.
There are 98 other infections imaginable that were reported during the same time and some of them possibly also belong to the outbreak.
Sweden’s Public Health Agency (Folkhälsomyndigheten) said the accumulation under investigation may still be caused by widely distributed food across the country.
The local infection units, the Swedish Food Agency (Livsmedelsverket) and Folkhälsomyndigheten are investigating the outbreak to identify the source of infection.
Cryptosporidium is a parasite that, if ingested, can cause cryptosporidiosis. Transmission occurs primarily through contact with infected water, but can occur through food or exposure to inflamed animals or water infected with feces of inflamed animals.
The main symptom is watery diarrhea, which can range from mild to severe. It is accompanied by abdominal pain, nausea or vomiting, fever and, infrequently, dehydration and weight loss. Symptoms usually appear two to ten days after infection and last for one to two weeks.
Salmonella outbreak appears to be ending Meanwhile, an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium has returned higher with another 84 people now affected, up from 54 cases in mid-October.
The other patients have returned between September 17 and October 6. They live in 20 of the country’s 21 regions.
Diversity of patients aged four to 87 years with an average age of four8 years. Most are with 52 cases.
The cases were connected through whole genome sequencing of patient samples. This means that they are suspected to have become inflamed from a non-unusual source.
Officials reported that the number of suspected and proven infections had decreased in recent days, indicating that the outbreak is coming to an end. This, coupled with the immediate onset of the incident and the wide geographical distribution of cases, means that novel foods with a suspected limited shelf life has been the cause.
Work is underway to identify an express between the Regional Infection Control Units, the Swedish Food Agency and the Swedish Public Health Agency.
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