On May 22, a parent in Wuhan, Hubei Province, released a video saying that the children in the No. 1 Kindergarten in Dongxihu District, Hubei Province, were vomiting after school meals. In the video, her child was vomiting in the hospital hall, and there were many parents with their children around.
The above parents revealed on the Internet that the child attended the Bafang Pearl Kindergarten in Dongxihu District, Wuhan. On May 22, Red Star News repeatedly contacted the person in charge of the kindergarten to find out the specific situation, but the phone could not be dialed. The other side did not reply to the reporter's interview message.
According to public data, the Bafang Pearl Kindergarten in Dongxihu District is a full-time public kindergarten under the Dongxihu District Education Bureau, which opened on September 1, 2019.
▲ Online video screenshot On the afternoon of 22nd, the staff of Dongxihu District Education Bureau in Wuhan told Red Star News that it happened on May 21. On that night, the local health department had gone to the school to deal with it. After sampling and testing, the food poisoning was ruled out, and it was preliminarily judged as norovirus infection.
Public information shows that Norovirus, also known as Norwalk virus, is a virus of the genus Norovirus in the human caliciviridae. It is an important pathogen that causes acute gastroenteritis in humans and many animals worldwide, and it is also one of the zoonoses that cause severe diarrhea.
The Red Star News noted that recently, the disease control departments in many places issued a warning that attention should be paid to the prevention of norovirus infection and other diseases in summer.
Red Star Journalist Hu Xianhe
Edited by He Xianfeng and Edited by Feng Lingling
