Study of an outbreak of disease transmitted by food in a children's circle. Yara, 2022 (Original)

Abstract

Outbreaks of foodborne diseases are one of the most pressing problems for modern public health, given the health compromise in a large number of people in a short period of time, and the cost of the clinical-epidemiological approach for its control. The Yarense territory presents an epidemiological history of multiple outbreaks of food poisoning that place the municipality in a high-risk stratum. Reporting events in popular festivals, birthday celebrations, internal and semi-internal educational institutions (children's circle) as well as cholera cases in 2012. In this context, the study aimed to determine the etiological cause and risk factors that influenced the appearance of the event, as well as identifying the foods involved and the causes of their contamination; for which an observational, analytical cohort study was carried out, of an outbreak reported in a Yara day care center on April 13, 2022. The universe consisted of 266 exposed people, of them 209 students and 57 workers. The sample was made up of the 42 affected cases, applying the criterion of surveying up to 50 patients one hundred percent. This study reveals the causes that originated the contingency, constituting a tool with scientific and educational importance, replicable for similar studies, which makes it possible to channel risks and mitigate them with opportunity, to eliminate biases in areas of collective feeding, which violate the safety of the products. processes.