Danquah Esther Priscilla Biamah, Okyere Boadu Kwame Adu, Arhin Jeffrey Kojo, Nabila Martha, Addy Akua, Darko Shadrack, Osei Bright
School of Dentistry, College of Health Sciences Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi Ghana.
Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Health Directorate Greater Accra Regional Health Directorate Accra Ghana.
Health Sci Rep. 2025 Apr 18;8(4):e70730. doi: 10.1002/hsr2.70730. eCollection 2025 Apr.
Foodborne illness and foodborne injury can be severe and fatal and have a negative impact on human health over the long-term period. On January 20, 2023, an unknown number of people had purchased and consumed "waakye or rice" with salad, stew, meat, gizzard, egg, among others from a food vendor at Oyibi, located in the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality in the north eastern outskirts of Accra. The disease had reportedly killed one person within 72 h after consumption of the meal and affected 53 other people. The cause or mode of transmission of this was unknown; therefore, it had to be ascertained. The additional fact that the illness had the potential to affect many more people necessitated this study to be done.
The investigation was a cross-sectional epidemiological study conducted in Oyibi and its environs in the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality and the Adenta Municipality. Anybody who ate food from the food vendor at Bush Canteen in Oyibi and presented with vomiting or diarrhea or abdominal cramps from January 22 to February 2, 2023 was studied. Permission was sought from the municipal assembly and municipal health directorate for this study.
Of the 62 persons who ate the food contacted, only 59 of them developed signs and symptoms and reported to a health facility. The population of the municipality is 426,098, making an attack rate 0.015% with one mortality (1.7%) case fatality. The study was a point source outbreak with an incubation period of 2 h minimum to 56 h maximum at an average of 15 h. (33.4ppb) was detected in the stored tomato stew. , and detected in these samples were less than 10 cfu/g. spp. was isolated from both implicated tomato stew (100,000 cfu/g) and stored stew (500,000 cfu/g).
An outbreak of foodborne illness was established at Oyibi Kpone Katamanso Municipality in the Greater Accra Region. The outbreak was a point source which started on January 20, 2023. It was established that people who ate stew, waakye, macaroni and plantain were more likely to fall ill, and the stew was a possible source of the outbreak.
食源性疾病和食源性损伤可能很严重甚至致命，长期会对人类健康产生负面影响。2023年1月20日，数量不明的人从位于阿克拉东北部郊区科普内-卡塔曼索市奥伊比的一名食品摊贩处购买并食用了配有沙拉、炖菜、肉、胗、蛋等的“瓦基或米饭”。据报道，食用该餐食后72小时内有1人死亡，另有53人受到影响。其病因或传播方式不明，因此必须查明。鉴于该疾病有可能影响更多人，有必要开展此项研究。
该调查是在科普内-卡塔曼索市和阿登塔市的奥伊比及其周边地区进行的一项横断面流行病学研究。研究对象为2023年1月22日至2月2日期间在奥伊比布什食堂从该食品摊贩处购买食物并出现呕吐、腹泻或腹痛症状的任何人。本研究已获得市议会和市卫生局的许可。
在62名接触过该食物的人中，只有59人出现症状并前往医疗机构就诊。该市人口为426,098人，发病率为0.015%，有1例死亡（病死率为1.7%）。该研究为一次点源暴发，潜伏期最短2小时，最长56小时，平均15小时。在储存的番茄炖菜中检测到（33.4ppb）。在这些样本中检测到的 以及 均低于10 cfu/g。从涉事的番茄炖菜（100,000 cfu/g）和储存的炖菜（500,000 cfu/g）中均分离出 菌属。
大阿克拉地区科普内-卡塔曼索市奥伊比发生了一起食源性疾病暴发。此次暴发为点源暴发，始于2023年1月20日。已确定食用炖菜、瓦基、通心粉和大蕉的人更易患病，炖菜可能是此次暴发的源头。
