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The public health system has worked "quickly", but the Minister of Health and Families of the Junta de Andalucía, Jesús Aguirre, has recognized on Wednesday a "lag" of "two or three days" in the detection of the listeriosis outbreak that The life of an elderly woman of 90 years has already been claimed and affects 131 people already, while there are another 523 under suspicion and waiting for the results of the analyzes.

Aguirre, in an interview in the Cope Chain, has defended the functioning of the sanitary protocols after the criticisms he has received and after recognizing that listeriosis could have been detected before. He said it after it was known that an error in the laboratory of the City Council of Seville could delay up to four days the identification of the meatloaf contaminated by the bacteria of the listeria, which meant a delay of several hours in the taking of the first decisions, including the withdrawal of infected food.

"We knew that something was happening at the beginning of August because there was a rebound in cases. But until the first family outbreak occurred, the epidemiological survey did not take us up to two or three products. On the 14th it was confirmed that the origin was in La Mechá and the meat item was immobilized. We decreed the health alert the day after, "said the counselor.

In spite of everything, Aguirre has sent a message of tranquility assuring that the medical treatment against listeriorisis is "very effective", at the same time that it has affected that this outbreak has been "the fastest " at the time of being diagnosed "as well as in regard to the elimination of contaminated meat and in comparison with other similar episodes that occurred in Europe. "We hope that the evolution of patients is the best possible," he said.

Likewise, the Andalusian Minister of Health has revealed that the number of people affected by the listeriosis outbreak after consuming shredded meat rises to 131 , while another 523 remain suspicious while waiting for the results.

However, in these statements, collected by Europa Press, Aguirre has indicated that the figures are very likely to increase and that they remain a total of 523 suspects. At the same time, he stressed that the treatment to stop listeriosis is "very effective "and stressed that the" health system is working very well. "

The counselor has regretted, however, the death of the 90-year-old woman for this outbreak of listeriosis due to meatloaf that occurred last Monday at the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville, where she entered on the 15th after five or six days with symptoms .

It should be remembered that the Ministry of Health and Families, through the General Directorate of Public Health and Pharmaceutical Planning , issued a health alert on August 15 on the meat product with the trade name 'La Mechá' , manufactured by Magrudis , based in Seville , after verifying that this product is the causative agent of listeriosis outbreaks registered in Seville in recent weeks.

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