Hundreds of people have been caught in a gastro outbreak after Esoteric Festival in Victoria. Health authorities have instructed the event’s attendees to monitor for symptoms including diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting.
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There’s been a gastro outbreak at a major Music Festival affecting at least 260 people Health authorities warning anyone who attended the esoteric Festival earlier this month to monitor for symptoms including diarrhea nausea and vomiting let’s get more and bring in the state’s Chief Health officer Dr
Clare luer Dr luer good morning to you so we’re talking about the shagel variant version of gastro how serious is it look typically thanks Michael shagel is a a self-limiting and reasonably moderate uh bacteria causing gastroenteritis uh but at times it can cause severe illness particularly in vulnerable groups so the children uh
Pregnant women or those who’ve got a compromised immune system the particular concern with this outbreak is that the the strain of Shela that we’ve identified is resistant to a number of our firstline antibiotics it’s a multi-resistant bug and that means it’s particularly important that we limit any further transmission from cases who
Might have been infected at the festival and on that front what are you advising people who think they’ve come down with this version of gastra yeah certainly so anyone who was a staff member a volunteer or attended the festival and that’s 7 and a half th000 people if you’ve got gastro
Symptoms please go and get some Medical Care you’ll be tested we can identify if this is chela if you are unwell don’t work for 48 hours put in place those preventative actions we know work like handwashing it’s particularly important for people who work in vulnerable settings so with uh aged Care Health
Care um Hospitality or with young children that not only they don’t work for 48 hours after their symptoms resolve but also that they get a negative test before returning to work if it’s not if it’s resistance to antibiotics as you say what’s the best form of treating
It so for most people the the illness will run its course and they won’t need to have any supplementary treatment except for St hydrated and and resting at home for those who get more severe disease there are some antibiotics which which do um which do work for this bug
But that’s something that needs to be given in hospital and and intravenously and is really reserved for those that are most critically unwell okay so as thing stands what what is the best theory on how this uh bug spread at this Festival I mean obviously lots of people
Lots of young people especially at very close quarters at this Festival how do you reckon it did spread yeah look it’s hard to definitively say we know that typically shagala is spread through um FAL AAL rout so it’s likely it’s probably through a a food um or meal preparation
Um event and then further further transmission between a 10 days following that meal okay so yes if you think you’ve got this if you’ve been to that Festival uh do take the appropriate actions as recommended by Dr CL loer Victoria’s Chief Health officer thanks for joining us this morning thanks very much Michael
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