Emergencies
Visitors complain of nausea after attending Spring Festival
So far there is no concrete suspicion as to where and how people actually became infected. photo
© Marijan Murat/dpa
The next day the party mood was over: numerous visitors fell ill after visiting the tent. What was the trigger?
Numerous guests at the Stuttgart Spring Festival suffered from vomiting, diarrhea, etc. after visiting a festival tent Suffered nausea.
This was reported by the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” and “Stuttgarter Nachrichten” and the “Südwestrundfunk”. The health department and veterinary authorities are on site at Cannstatter Wasen and are urgently looking for the cause. They say they take the reports very seriously. However, there is still no concrete suspicion as to where and how people could actually have become infected. No technical or hygienic deficiencies were discovered on site. Authorities took food samples. These still need to be evaluated.
According to a report in the two newspapers, the Stuttgart public order office had received reports from people who showed signs of illness after attending the festival. According to reports, checks were carried out. Among those affected were seven friends who went to the festival on Saturday and drank beer there, most of whom ate grilled chicken. They celebrated in the tent from 7 p.m. to midnight.
The next day the party mood was over and a few of them got sick. Four of them suffered from nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Three of the four sick people had eaten the same thing, the fourth had eaten nothing, the two newspapers reported.