More than 100 of the roughly 800 guests at a seafront hotel in La Manga near Murcia developed gastrointestinal symptoms after an initial alert of 28 cases. Twenty people, including children and a baby, were taken to hospital and a field hospital was set up; some patients received hydration drips in their rooms. Health inspectors closed the hotel and took kitchen samples. Regional health authorities are treating the incident as a probable salmonella outbreak. Symptoms reported included nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and fever. Timing of salmonella symptoms ranges from six hours to six days and can last four to seven days.
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."
The initial alert on Saturday referenced 28 cases but by yesterday the number of people with health problems had jumped to more than 100 of the 800 guests believed to be staying at the hotel. The baby and children understood to be among those affected were taken to Santa Lucia Hospital in the nearby port city of Cartagena with ailments including fevers.
Health inspectors have taken samples from the kitchen at the hotel, which has now been closed, as part of an ongoing investigation. Regional government health sources said overnight they were treating it as a probable salmonella poisoning outbreak. Salmonella poisoning effects typically include sudden diarrhoea, fever and abdominal cramps which appear between six hours and six days after infection and can last four to seven days.
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