The number of patients in the epidemic has been traced at the double of restaurants on the farm in a week
The number of patients in an epidemic established at a farm restaurant in Canada doubled a week ago.
Patients are infected with E. coli and some are also infected with the Party Entamoeba histolytica, according to the Alberta Health Services. The patients ate at the Saskatoon Farm restaurant.
As of August 5, 49 patients with E infections. Coli, against 18 reported on July 25. Three patients had to be hospitalized. Twenty-nine of the patients were identified with an infection at Entamoeba histolytica, a parasite that causes friendbiase. Previously, only three patients were confirmed with parasitic infections.
Friendbiasis can “cause gastrointestinal diseases and, more rarely, a serious liver, lungs, heart and brain”, even without previous symptoms indicating its presence, according to the health service.
Laboratory tests have also identified cases of Norovirus and Rotavirus, although “it remains to be determined whether these pathogens can be linked to this survey,” the statement said. “Norovirus and rotavirus are current viruses associated with gastrointestinal disease.”
The restaurant, bakery and “red house” of Saskatoon Farm remain temporarily closed, but farm activities continue. Customers are offered bottled drinks without access to the previous water source. To compensate for the lack of a restaurant on site, the farm welcomed a number of food trucks.
The U-Pick fields are open to visitors who want to go to the berries, and the vegetable support is available for the purchase of products.
The farm has made a number of declarations and posts reiterating the safety of its bay and vegetable crops, after repeated questions on fears of the potential effects of health.
“We irrigate using rainwater – both collected and falling naturally – and after harvesting, all products are rinsed with well -treated well water. This source of treated well water has been tested and approved by Alberta Health Services,” said Saskatoon Farm in a social media press release.
The farm indicates that well water is not linked to the source of water under examination. This survey is still underway.
Whatever the symptoms, those who have dinner in the exhibition window from July 1 to 18 are invited to call the health link to 811 for amibiase screening. Those who have symptoms, including nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, are invited to call immediately.
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