Thousands of people get salmonella

Published Thursday July 3rd, 2008

The Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Danish health officials fear more than 4,000 people may be infected with salmonella and are checking everything from refrigerators to credit card receipts to find the source of what may be the worst outbreak in 15 years.

Kare Moelbak of the Ministry of Health said 330 cases have been confirmed and about a quarter of those people have been hospitalized.

No deaths have been reported.

He said officials at the government's centre for prevention and control of infectious diseases say the real number probably exceeds 4,000 people.

Moelbak said he suspects the source is some sort of Danish food product distributed only in Denmark, since neighbouring countries have not reported an outbreak. They believe it probably is meat.

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