One person dead and more than 200 ill in UK salmonella outbreak

UKHSA rules out British produce as source of infections and says evidence points to consumption of imported eggs One person has died and more than 200 others have fallen ill during a UK-wide outbreak of salmonella that health officials have linked to the consumption of imported eggs. The 207 people affected range in age from under one year to 90 years old, according to the UK Health Security Agency , which is leading an investigation into the outbreak. The UKHSA has ruled out UK-produced eggs or poultry as the source and said the available evidence pointed to eggs imported into Britain. It is working with other European countries, through their joint system of surveillance of threats to health, to identify how the outbreak began. The agency said it could not release any details into the person who died or circumstances of their death because it was the subject of a continuing investigation.

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