The United Kingdom alerted WHO on March 27, 2022, of a cluster of monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium sequencing type 34 infection cases. The outbreak was connected to chocolate made in Belgium and distributed to at least 113 nations, according to investigations.
The risk of spread in the WHO European region and globally is assessed as moderate until the information is available on the full recall of the products.
As of 25 April 2022, a total of 151 genetically related cases of S. Typhimurium suspected to be linked to the consumption of the implicated chocolate products have been reported from 11 countries :
Belgium (26 cases),
France (25 cases),
Germany (10 cases),
Ireland (15 cases),
Luxembourg (1 case),
the Netherlands (2 cases),
Norway (1 case),
Spain (1 case),
Sweden (4 cases),
the United Kingdom (65 cases)
and the United States of America (1 case).
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