Disease with diarrhea and vomiting wave spreads


The cause of one of the largest national gastrointestinal disease waves of recent years is still open, a spokeswoman for the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). In Berlin, the authorities have norovirus and natural poisons (toxins) as a possible causative agent in sight. From the perspective of the German Society for Hospital Hygiene salmonella or norovirus could be the cause of the disease. "In any case, it must have given hygiene errors in production," board member Klaus-Dieter Zastrow said, referring to the food....