An outbreak of intestinal infection was recorded in the Lviv Oriyana Lyceum, as a result of which 19 people were injured, including schoolchildren and a one-and-a-half-year-old child. This was reported by the Lviv Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Suspilne Lviv reports..

According to Andrey Orfin, deputy medical director of the Lviv Regional Infectious Diseases Hospital, the first cases of hospitalization began to be registered on November 5. Children who ate in the school canteen turned to doctors with symptoms of acute intestinal infection - nausea, abdominal pain, fever, weakness, diarrhea and repeated vomiting.

“Among the patients are 14 school students, one employee of the institution and two contact persons. In particular, this is a child aged one and six months, who lives with a sick student, and his mother,” the doctor noted.

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Doctors took biomaterials from patients to determine the causative agent of infection. Bacteriological and virological studies are currently ongoing. Specialists also conduct an epidemiological investigation, interview hospitalized people, and check water, food, and swabs from school canteen facilities..

As of November 10, 19 cases of the disease were recorded, of which 18 people were hospitalized. Among the victims are 17 children under 15 years of age..

The Lviv Center for Disease Control does not officially name the educational institution, but the Department of Civil Protection of the Lviv Regional State Administration confirmed that we are talking about the Oriyana Lyceum..

The police opened criminal proceedings under. 1 tbsp. 325 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine - violation of sanitary rules and regulations, which led to mass poisoning. Those found guilty face a fine of up to three thousand tax-free minimum incomes, arrest of up to six months or imprisonment for up to three years..

Previously, an outbreak of intestinal infection occurred in the Lviv camp. Children aged 9-12 years were taken to hospitals.