Two dead and two hospitalized for meat poisoning

There is concern in Berazategui. It is that the two people who died from eating meat and offal in poor condition, were joined in the last hours by two other men with a similar picture of diarrhea, vomiting and fever.

One of the intoxicated, 47, has been hospitalized since January 20. From the Ministry of Health of Buenos Aires information that “evolves unfavorably with multi-organ failure.”

“He is in the intensive care unit, with mechanical respiratory assistance,” added the statement, which also reported that the man had consumed sausages and barbecue bought at a butcher shop in Berazategui. In this case, no virus or bacteria have yet been identified and the blood culture is in process.

The other inmate is a 40-year-old man, a delivery man 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 (a skin rash) to which diarrhea was added.

According to the spokespersons, he remained hospitalized in stable condition, and the person was identified as having salmonella sp.

Fatal cases. This Thursday the municipality of Berazategui agreed that two people had died with similar pictures, after eating meat.

One of them was a 48-year-old man, without comorbidities, who began with diarrhea and vomiting on January 8 and died on January 12. The person reported having eaten offal and meat with an unpleasant flavor and in this case the presence of Salmonella typhimurium was established. .

The other death was of a 36-year-old man who began with cough, headache, and fever on January 13, to which diarrhea was added a day later, and on January 16 he was hospitalized for symptoms of diarrhea, vomiting, fever, and septic shock. and multiorgan failure.

This patient, who worked in a refrigerator, passed on January 17 and had also reported the consumption of reheated meatballs. In this person, the bacterium shigella sp and salmonella sp.

To identify the etiological (causing) agent, the samples from the patients were referred to the National Reference Laboratory – ANLIS Malbrán and the food samples – which were collected both in the patients’ homes and in the butcher shops where they made their purchases (a of them closed) are in the National Food Institute and the results are awaited.

“Salmonellas and shigellas are bacteria associated with digestive disorders mainly -although not exclusively-, also enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli,” Conicet researcher Víctor Romanowski, who directs the Molecular Virology Laboratory of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology and Biology, explained to Télam. (IBBM) of the National University of La Plata (UNLP-Conicet).