Elena, a part-time nurse, had travelled to Cape Verde on 1 August with her husband, Patrick, their son Sean and his fiance, before she began feeling unwell on 8 August.<\/p>\n
After her condition worsened overnight, she was assessed by a nurse and transferred to hospital, but she continued to deteriorate and died on 10 August.<\/p>\n
Patrick Walsh, 60, who also fell ill, said his wife’s condition gradually “got worse and worse” and he wanted to make people aware of what had happened.<\/p>\n
“You don’t expect to go on holiday and you all don’t come back,” he added tearfully.<\/p>\n
“Just constantly, constantly being sick… the Thursday night I got it out of my system, but Elena didn’t.”<\/p>\n
Walsh described how as there was so much food at the resort, people were “picking and mixing”.<\/p>\n
“I did say to Elena\u2026 This is not a real hotel and it wasn’t a real hotel, the standards were way lower,” he said.<\/p>\n
“She was very inquisitive,” he said of his wife. “Anyone she met, she got on with them, and had such a zest for life.”<\/p>\n
Elena’s son, Sean, 29, who was celebrating his engagement at the time, felt hygiene and cleanliness at the hotel were “very deceptive”.<\/p>\n
“We were hearing so many stories of other people there who just had passing stomach bugs,” he said.<\/p>\n
“And then sort of little things where restaurants that have a little bit of an outdoor area, you’d notice a lot of flies and things like that around the food and drinks dispensers and things.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elena, a part-time nurse, had travelled to Cape Verde on 1 August with her husband, Patrick, their son…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-405155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}