During the week, several people contacted the health care and the municipality for having become stomach-sick after eating pastries from a bakery in Örebro. Örebro Municipality has currently confirmed 180 cases.

- People hear about themselves and say "hello I ate of that cake" and our assessment is that they fell ill within the same time span, ie 24 to 48 hours, "says Kristian Hellström, head of the food unit in Örebro.

More people can get sick

Tests have been carried out where it was possible to confirm that the infected people had received norovirus, that is, the winter sickness. However, this is still preliminary information, but several agencies have carried out checks, the municipality of Örebro, the infection protection unit at USÖ and the Swedish Food Agency.

- There is a risk that there will be more people who become stomach-sick and then it is a secondary infection, ie people who have had close contact with people who have become ill after eating pastries.

Virus found in food

The National Food Agency has found winter sickness virus on pastries. But what caused the virus to end up there is still unknown.

- It is difficult to find viruses in food, but a method has been developed that means that you scratch the surface of pastries and have then found winter sickness virus.

Initially, the municipality believed that frozen raspberries were the cause of the infection, but now it has been established that this is not the case.

Örebro Municipality now continues its mapping of, among other things, equipment and packaging used to find the cause of infection.