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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
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAnne Fouilletanne.fouillet santepubliquefrance.fr
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Citation style for this article: . 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. Euro Surveill. 2020;25(7):pii=2000060. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.7.2000060 Received: 24 Jan 2020; Accepted: 20 Feb 2020
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.
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