The cause is not yet known and the hunt is on for what caused salmonella to sicken up to 4,000 Danes. To date, 330 cases have been confirmed.
it is possible that as many as 4,000 people have been affected by a salmonella outbreak in Denmark. Health officials have no firm answers as yet but Denmark's Center for Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases puts the actual number of cases is at around 4,000. To date, there have been no deaths reported.
A Danish meat product is the
suspected culprit and there have been no outbreaks reported among neighbouring countries.
"Food control units are out to visit patients and see what they have in their refrigerators. We have even had access to electronic files to get an overview of what people have bought using their credit cards," Kare Moelbak of the Ministry of Health said.
Denmark: Salmonella Affects 4,000 People, Cause Unknown
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