Symptoms include stomach cramps, diarrhoea, vomiting or fever. These usually develop between 12 and 72 hours after becoming infected.<\/p>\n
Anyone who is concerned should contact their GP or out of hours service in the first instance, says the UKHSA. <\/p>\n
Most cases – 199 of the 207 – have been in England, including 47 in London and 38 in Yorkshire and Humber. <\/p>\n
There have been six cases in Scotland, one in Wales and another in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n
Hannah Charles, lead epidemiologist for gastrointestinal infections at UKHSA, said: “We’re working with Food Standards Agency and other public health agencies to investigate a salmonella outbreak that may be linked to eggs imported from outside of the UK.”<\/p>\n
Salmonella can be found in a number of food sources including raw or under-cooked poultry or meat and eggs. <\/p>\n
Preparing and cooking food thoroughly can prevent infection, as well as washing your hands after using the bathroom and before handling food.<\/p>\n
Thousands of cases food poisoning happen each year in the UK caused by lots of different strains of salmonella. <\/p>\n
It is more unusual to see an outbreak like this linked to one specific strain of the bacterium affecting many people at one time. <\/p>\n
The UKHSA says “extensive” epidemiological and food chain investigations are ongoing to identify the source but that egg consumption remains the strongest to date. <\/p>\n
People appear to have fallen ill after eating out rather than after consuming food prepared at home.<\/p>\n
Some of the food businesses linked to 24 of the cases use imported eggs. <\/p>\n
“At this time there is no identified link to UK-produced eggs or poultry,” says the UKHSA. <\/p>\n
Any extra precautions or preventative measures will be implemented if needed, it says. The risk to the general public is low. <\/p>\n
Jacquelyn McCormick, Head of Incidents at the Food Standards Agency, said eggs which are thoroughly cooked and handled hygienically should not present a food safety risk.<\/p>\n
She advised: “Infants, young children, pregnant people and older adults should only eat runny or raw eggs if they have a British Lion mark or are produced under the Laid in Britain egg assurance scheme.”<\/p>\n
People handling eggs, eggshells or egg packaging should wash their hands thoroughly with soap and water, she added. <\/p>\n
Catering outlets have a food hygiene rating, so looking at these when deciding where to eat, recommends Dr Kathleen O’Reilly from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Symptoms include stomach cramps, diarrhoea, vomiting or fever. These usually develop between 12 and 72 hours after becoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-741968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741968","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=741968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}