Overview
- Spain notified the ECDC of 41 gastroenteritis cases across 10 autonomous communities, with a median age of four months and symptoms mainly of vomiting and diarrhea.
- Thirteen infants required hospitalization and have since been discharged, including one intensive care admission related to a concurrent respiratory infection.
- AESAN has coordinated the withdrawal of implicated formulas through successive alerts shared via EU rapid information systems, with notices issued from December 12 to February 17.
- Microbiology results vary, identifying Bacillus cereus in one stool sample, Campylobacter in another and rotavirus in a third, with two cases noting gastroenteritis episodes in the family environment.
- An ECDC Rapid Outbreak Assessment now includes Spain’s data, lot-level tracing continues, and there is still no common EU case definition for this event.