According to the source, the patient felt the first symptoms of abdominal pain within 15 hours, then he called an ambulance. He was taken to the Regional Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital, now the patient is using an artificial respiration apparatus. The doctors analyzed the patient's blood, he was prescribed serum injections of types A, B, E. The diagnosis of "botulism" has been fully confirmed. To date, the patient's condition remains severe.

It is noteworthy that for the whole of 2017 in Ukraine almost 100 cases of botulism were recorded, especially the virus began to spread in the Lviv region and Mykolaiv region. Experts are convinced that this is a consequence of the lack of control that the state allowed in the fish market.

As reported in the "URA-Inform", the Red Cross recently gave Ukraine medicines from botulism and tetanus.