Gastrointestinal virus? – More than 300 sick people after tent festival in Stuttgart

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Visiting the Stuttgart Spring Festival on the weekend is now having bad consequences for hundreds of people. There is a good chance that you are infected with a gastrointestinal virus. Exactly how the visitors became infected is still under investigation by the health department and veterinary authority. Meanwhile, more and more cases of vomiting, diarrhea and nausea are coming in.

The German media talk about more than 300 people, all of whom celebrated, ate and drank in a festival tent. No hygienic or technical problems have been identified so far. Food samples are still being examined.

“Food control and health authorities were immediately on site after the first reports arrived to check hygiene and take samples of the food. “We currently mainly want to contain the outbreak and locate the source of the infection,” a spokesperson for the city of Stuttgart told the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” on Wednesday.

There are already secondary infections
There are now also reports of further infections as a result of contact between sick people and other people. According to reports, some of the staff are also sick.

Source: Krone

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