More than 100 of about 800 guests at a seafront hotel in La Manga, near Murcia, experienced symptoms including nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and fever. A field hospital was set up and 20 people, including children and a baby, were taken to hospital, with some guests receiving hydration drips in their rooms. Health inspectors closed the hotel and took samples from the kitchen. Regional health sources are treating the incident as a probable salmonella poisoning outbreak. Salmonella poisoning typically causes sudden diarrhoea, fever and abdominal cramps that appear six hours to six days after infection and can last four to seven days.
A field hospital was also set up at the seafront hotel after guests went down with tell-tale symptoms including nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and in some cases fever. The initial alert on Saturday referenced 28 cases but by yesterday the number of people with health problems had jumped to over 100 of the 800 guests believed to be staying at the hotel.
Several ambulances were filmed arriving and leaving the hotel from Saturday afternoon onwards, with subsequent reports pointing to some holidaymakers being put on hydration drips in their rooms while others were laid out on stretchers in hotel corridors. One guest said her friend had been unable to leave her room from Saturday night onwards. She said: "She started to feel unwell after lunch and at dinnertime because she had a stomach ache she only ate a yoghurt.
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