Alert to listeriosis in Romania! What are the first symptoms of the disease?

The National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority (ANSVSA) announced that the Greenyard-based manufacturer has withdrawn "as a precaution" all frozen products marketed in Europe, including Romania, and that the Authority has been formally informed The early warning system for food and feed by the Hungarian National Contact Point on the inclusion of Romania in the list of products distribution frozen "Greenyard" in Hungary

"The first laboratory tests were completed for samples taken from frozen products removed pre-emptively from the sale.The results of laboratory tests have denied the presence of Listeria monocytogenes in samples taken frozen beans, broccoli, sweet peppers, sweet corn, mixed Mexican vegetables on the list of frozen products for which the withdrawal was initiated preventive marketing of the Member States. The updated alerts received through the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed do not include test reports that indicate the presence of Listeria monocytogenes in frozen products on the market in our country. As and when they are received, the information is forwarded to the territorial structures of ANSVSA, which closely follow the withdrawal and recall procedures of the distributors and distributors of frozen products appearing on the distribution list. day. Samples taken from other frozen products that have been the subject of a preventive withdrawal in the European Union are analyzed in the laboratory, "said ANSVA. In Europe, Austria, Denmark, Great Britain, Sweden and Finland, 47 people have been infected with Listeria monocytogenes since 2015.

Of these, nine have died. Tudor Ciuhodaru explained on his Facebook page what we need to know about listeriosis:
"1. Listeria is a cold-resistant bacteria (2-8ºC) that can grow in many foods.
2. It can easily enter our food chain, especially since Listeria sources include humans, most animals, soil, vegetation and sewers.
3. Pregnant women have the highest risk of infection (20 times more than other adults, 1 in 3 cases of infection in expectant mothers) and bacteria cross the placenta and reach the fetus causing many complications of pregnancy
4. In adults, the infection can easily be overlooked or neglected because the symptoms are minor or mild (flu, digestive or urinary tract infections)
5. during pregnancy can cause abortion, premature birth, low birth weight and many complications (respiratory, neurological, blind, delay) merging to death
6. Patients with low immunity such as oncology, transplantation or corticotherapy may develop serious neurological or pulmonary complications: meningitis, encephalitis or pneumonia
7. The diagnosis suspicion of pregnancy is related to fever, headache accompanied by myalgia, arthralgia, lower back pain (especially in the third trimester). The diagnosis of the certainty of Listerian infections is based on the isolation of the germ in the culture of blood, amniotic fluid and CSF "