Two children, who were infected with salmonella, are being treated at the Children’s ICU of the University General Hospital of Heraklion.

According to Radio Crete, the supervisor of Public Health of the Region of Crete, Antonis Papadakis said the first case involves an infant just 5 months old and the other a 10-year-old child.

According to him, the case of the 5-month-old infant shows that it is very likely that the infection was transmitted to the infant by accident from the parents who may have touched raw meat or some other raw food with their bare hands and then touched the infant’s items.

According to him, salmonella is more serious than norovirus infection and therefore it was deemed necessary for the children to be hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit.

As the hygienist explained, the symptoms of salmonellosis are gastroenteritis, vomiting, diarrhoea and inability to feed.

The public health supervisor drew the attention of parents about the salmonella germ pointing out that movements in the house especially when we have young children should be very careful.