The Ministry of Health has detected two new probable cases of botulism associated with the consumption of packaged potato tortillas, one in Madrid and the other in Andalusia, with which the number of affected by this outbreak amounts to nineof which five have been confirmed.
Thus, in Andalusia there are two suspected cases, a 27-year-old man from Malaga, who is now joined by a 63-year-old person who began his first symptoms on July 14, while the 48-year-old from Madrid started them on Saturday the 22nd after consuming the food three days earlier, as reflected by the Health Alerts and Emergencies Coordination Center (CCAES) in the report that has just been updated today Monday.
The four probable cases -these three and another person from the Valencian Community-, still unconfirmed, present “compatible symptoms and history of consumption of suspicious food of the brand involved.
The document does not mention brands or companies, but last week the Palacios Group asked all people who have purchased any of these products (Palacios, Chef Select, Auchan, Eroski, Unide, Consum, DIA, Ametller, Condis, El Corte Inglés, Carrefour, Alipende, Grupo IFA and Rikissimo) to refrain from consuming it and return it to the point of salewhile at the same time several supermarkets withdrew them from their shelves
While, confirmed cases remain at five: two Italian citizens who bought one of these tortillas in Valladolid on June 30, another from Madrid, another from Asturias and a last one from Galicia; the three residents in Spain have required treatment in the ICU.