More than 4,000 German children and adolescents have become ill with a virus that causes gastrointestinal problems by eating food contaminated with a norovirus presumably eaters in schools where studying.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Berlin virology noted Friday that all those affected ate food prepared by a single company and industrial kitchens in several locations scattered throughout the country.
He added that all cases are concentrated in eastern Germany and specifically in the states of Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia, where some schools will not open its doors this Friday preemptively.
The RKI said that so far only three children have been admitted to hospital seriously affected by the norovirus, which is transmitted by food contaminated by sewage and by person to person contact.
Health officials in the states affected by the virus outbreak confirmed that all schools receiving these supplies for their kitchens Sodexo company, based in the town of Rüsselsheim, in the center of the country.
The company, which has 17,000 employees, manages approximately 30 kitchens spread over Germany and feeding some 150,000 children and adolescents in German schools.
A spokesman said the company Sodexo, founded in 1992, had not so far had a single health problem and its specialists seeking the source of food contamination with gastrointestinal virus.
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