las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 20 feb (EFE).-A bacteria of fecal-oral transmission, the “Shigella flexneri”, caused poisonings that have caused the deaths of two residents of a Centre for the disabled in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, reported EfE sources of the Directorate-General of public health in the Canary Islands.
Health authorities are still investigating how the bacteria arrived at the Center “be 4” of the capital district of Schamann, and what was really the focus of infection.
The first of the two victims by this bacterium died in the early hours of last Tuesday and the second on Friday night after having been entered in the Hospital Universitario Doctor NegrÃn.
In both cases is resident in the Center with other associated pathologies which have aggravated the evolution of infection by the bacteria, which is normally associated with vomiting, diarrhea and fever, and does not usually generate complications in patients with good health.
In addition to the two deaths, at least 13 others have needed hospital care by that infection among downtown residents and relatives of their users and workers.
