One person has died and hundreds have been left ill with food poisoning after a salmonella outbreak, health officials say.<\/p>\n
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the salmonella<\/a> outbreak “may be linked to eggs imported” from outside Britain.<\/p>\n From 11 August last year to the start of this month, the agency said 207 cases had been confirmed – 199 in England, six in Scotland, one in Wales and one in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n More than a third of people affected in the outbreak were admitted to hospital, while two developed potentially life-threatening bloodstream infections, the UKHSA added.<\/p>\n Those affected include babies and patients as old as 90.<\/p>\n See more from Sky News: Hannah Charles, lead epidemiologist for gastrointestinal infections at UKHSA, said it was working with the Food Standards Agency and other public health agencies to investigate the outbreak.<\/p>\n The UKHSA added that the outbreak appeared to be connected to a previous spate of cases in 2025, which they said was also linked to imported eggs.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, the UKHSA said salmonella cases were at a decade-high in England, increasingly slightly from 10,389 in 2024 to 10,406 in 2025.<\/p>\n It noted in May that despite the rise, the figures “remain broadly comparable” to the year prior.<\/p>\n Symptoms of salmonella, which is often caused by eating or handling contaminated food, generally include stomach cramps, diarrhoea, vomiting or fever.<\/p>\n The UKHSA said those in vulnerable groups may experience more severe illness such as bloodstream infections, infection of metastatic sites, sepsis and multiorgan failure.<\/p>\n Ms Charles said: “There are simple steps to prevent the spread of salmonella: wash your hands thoroughly after using the bathroom and before preparing and handling food, cook food thoroughly, and if you have any symptoms, avoid handling food for others where possible.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has died and hundreds have been left ill with food poisoning after a salmonella outbreak, health…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[92057,49,48,588,18784,67892,299989,84,98612],"class_list":["post-862435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-bloodstream-infections","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-england","tag-food-poisoning","tag-food-standards-agency","tag-gastrointestinal-infections","tag-health","tag-uk-health-security-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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