{"id":751466,"date":"2026-08-27T14:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751466\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:12:08","slug":"uk-salmonella-cases-nearing-500-as-egg-investigations-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751466\/","title":{"rendered":"UK salmonella cases nearing 500 as egg investigations continue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Close to 500 people have become ill with salmonella linked to imported eggs, say UK authorities, who say they have identified two new clusters of the infection.<\/p>\n

The UK Health Security Agency, external<\/a> reported 207 cases last week. That has been increased to 259, with the two new clusters bringing the total to 474. There have been two deaths recorded.<\/p>\n

Some of the cases date back a year, but all involve bacteria that are almost genetically identical, suggesting a common food source.<\/p>\n

Investigations are ongoing, but based on what is known so far, experts say people have fallen sick after eating out rather than cooking eggs at home.<\/p>\n

Cases of salmonella are being seen in other European countries, external<\/a> too – Austria (2), Belgium (15), Denmark (1), France (4), Germany (6), the Netherlands (106). <\/p>\n

Investigations in the Netherlands suggests a link with chicken meat, rather than eggs.<\/p>\n

Salmonella can be found in a number of food sources including raw or under-cooked poultry or meat and eggs.<\/p>\n

More than a third of those ill in the UK – some babies and others as old as 92 – have needed hospital care. <\/p>\n

Most people get better without treatment, however.<\/p>\n

While salmonella cases can happen any time, the UK outbreak involves a few specific, near-identical genetic clusters called t5.9411, t0.24068 and t5.9765.<\/p>\n

There have been:<\/p>\n

259 confirmed cases and one death linked to t5.9411<\/p>\n

38 confirmed cases and one death linked to t5.9765<\/p>\n

177 confirmed cases linked to the t0.24068<\/p>\n

Most have been recorded in recent weeks and months, but the investigations go back to cases as far as August 2025. <\/p>\n

The majority have been in England, with many in London and Yorkshire and Humber.<\/p>\n

There have been a small number of cases in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Close to 500 people have become ill with salmonella linked to imported eggs, say UK authorities, who say…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-751466","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\/751466","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=751466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}