28 botulism cases registered in Kyrgyzstan

AKIPRESS.COM - 51 food poisoning cases were registered in Kyrgyzstan in 10 months of this year, 28 botulism cases among them affecting 57 people, the Ministry of Health reported.
Botulism cases were mostly registered in Osh region - 19 cases affecting 42 people.
Signs of botulism appear within 2-36 hours after consuming the contaminated product, but sometimes the latent incubation period can last 8-10 days, but most often the disease occurs in 12-24 hours. In most cases, botulism begins acutely. It may occur at once in several family members or other people who ate canned salads or cucumbers, mushrooms, eggplants or other vegetables and meat products the day before.
Prevention is primarily by proper food preparation. The toxin, though not the organism, is destroyed by heating it to more than 85 °C for longer than 5 minutes.