Large concomitant outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis emergency visits in adults and food-borne events suspected to be linked to raw shellfish, France, December 2019 to January 2020
Anne Fouillet, Nelly Fournet, Cécile Forgeot, Gabrielle Jones, Alexandra Septfons, Léa Franconeri, Katia Ambert‐Balay, Jeannot Schmidt, Patrick Guérin, Henriette de Valk, Céline Caserio‐Schönemann
Abstract
On 27 December 2019, the French Public Health Agency identified a large increase in the number of acute gastroenteritis and vomiting visits, both in emergency departments and in emergency general practitioners' associations providing house-calls. In parallel, on 26 and 27 December, an unusual number of food-borne events suspected to be linked to the consumption of raw shellfish were reported through the mandatory reporting surveillance system. This paper describes these concomitant outbreaks and the investigations' results.
Topics & Concepts
OutbreakMedicineEnvironmental healthAcute gastroenteritisVomitingMedical emergencyConcomitantShellfishEmergency medicinePublic healthPediatricsGeographyFisheryFish <Actinopterygii>SurgeryVirologyBiologyNursingAquatic animalViral gastroenteritis research and epidemiologyFood Safety and HygieneSalmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology