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LAST UPDATE | 13 Sep 2023
THE HSE SAID a “small number” of Irish citizens have been affected by botulism after an outbreak connected to a wine bar in Bordeaux, France.
The HSE is advising anyone who ate sardines at the Tchin Tchin Wine Bar between 4 September and 10 September and who feel unwell to seek urgent medical care at an Emergency Department.
Earlier today, the Irish Embassy in France warned Irish citizens about an outbreak of botulism connected to the wine bar.
One woman has died and at least 12 others, including one person from Ireland, are receiving treatment for the rare food-borne poisoning after all eating in the same restaurant last week.
“The Embassy is aware of a botulism outbreak linked to a wine bar in Bordeaux,” the Irish embassy based in Paris has written on social media.
“We advise Irish citizens who ate in Tchin Tchin Wine Bar between September 4th and 10th to immediately consult a doctor if experiencing any symptoms.”
The Embassy is aware of a botulism outbreak linked to a wine bar in Bordeaux.
— Irish Embassy Paris (@IrlEmbParis) September 13, 2023
We advise Irish citizens who ate in Tchin Tchin Wine Bar between September 4th and 10th to immediately consult a doctor if experiencing any symptoms.
Director of the HSE Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) Dr Greg Martin said: “It is important to emphasise that this advice only applies to those who ate sardines at the premises during the time specified.”
“There are no other circumstances in which a person can be affected by this incident,” he added.
Martin said: “Botulism can be a serious and potentially fatal condition. Symptoms include blurred vision and difficulty in swallowing and speaking, but sometimes diarrhoea and vomiting can occur.”
The expert said the disease can also lead to problems with vision, and paralysis.
In a statement this evening, the HSE said the HPSC was alerted of this outbreak yesterday by French authorities and were told the details of the restaurant earlier today.
A doctor at the Pellegrin hospital in Bordeaux, Benjamin Clouzeau, told AFP that the people receiving treatment included Irish, American and Canadian nationals, while others from Germany and Spain had returned home for treatment.
Botulism is a neurological illness caused by a toxin generated by a type of bacteria that can grow when food is improperly preserved or canned.
Bordeaux, which is already a popular destination for tourists, is particularly busy right now as it is one of nine French cities hosting games for the Rugby World Cup.
Thousands of Irish rugby fans were in the city at the weekend as Ireland played its opening match against Romania.
Local newspaper Sud-Ouest quoted the restaurant owner as saying that he had thrown out some of the jars containing sardines because of a “strong smell” emanating from the containers when he opened them but that others “appeared in good condition and were served up to customers”.
Additional reporting by © AFP 2023 and Muiris O’Cearbhaill
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So, have the government started stealing your babies yet, or were Waters, Quinn and O’Brien wrong again?
Course they were wrong, sure any sane person knew they were talking out their backsides
No they are too busy enforcing the mandatory abortions from the abortion legislation to get around to stealing the babies
The legislation hasn’t been put in place yet. The referendum was passed but nothing in the constitution has changed yet.
To be fair, the anti-referendum campaign could also ask whether the Irish state’s protection of children has improved. A third alternative is that it was a big pointless vanity project.
Can we insist on the High Court awarding costs against this petitioner as this was a gross insult to jurisprudence as the woman produced no evidence to support her claim.
Read the article again Richie and you might understand it. Are you suggesting that only those with a 100% chance of winning their case should approach the courts? Sounds very elitist to me an attempt to limit peoples rights to avail of court services.
Whistleblowing will be the problem.
Remind me, did the govt ministers who sanctioned the ultra vires booklet pay the costs in the mccrystal case or pay back the public money wasted on the booklet?
What an absolute waste of court time, the judge should have jailed her for contempt.
Oh yes of course because she is wrong? The yes vote was pushed more then the no vote and the government don’t give a dame children in Ireland don’t have a voice and never ever will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I0OiNdj2aP4 , “There is no system ever devised by mankind that is guaranteed to rip husband and wife or father, mother and child apart so bitterly than our present Family Court System.” Judge Brian Lindsay, Retired Supreme Court Judge
Oh Rosemary!
So onto the Supreme Court?
Doesn’t seem justice was servered as supreme court had previously ruled the campaign was baised and unfair.
The High Court appear to say any referendum campain run by the Government of the day can indeed be biast and unfair as long as being biast and unfair does not have an affect on the result. This appears to overule the McKenna judgment.
However the Supreme Court says the Government campin on the childrens referendum was biast and unfair but did not make a judgment on if being biast and unfair had an affect on the result.
So I guess we will never know unless this decision is appealed to the Supreme Court.
More to the point when are FG and labour going to pay back the €2 million of tax payers money they misused during the referendum?
Kerry
I think you may find that the Government cannot be equated to a Political Party or Parties in terms of any errors it may have committed in their day to day roles. On the basis of your logic we should also ask the Roman Catholic Church for a contribution as well since most of the Members of Government were also of that faith and sure why not include the GAA while we’re at it!
Given that the above is apparently good legal advice will you now give it a rest Kerry?
2 government parties were found to have misused Irish tax payers money in a referendum. I tell you what Richie when they pay that money back I’ll give it a rest. How about a bit of accountability from Enda and Eamon?
Tom is quite right, the government are in the wrong-they always are!
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