Overview

• All butcher shops, supermarkets and small cold stores in the municipality must display preventive information on hemolytic uremic syndrome, with posters supplied by the local Bromatology office.
• The municipality will run food-handling courses for meat vendors and workers, and noncompliance with the signage requirement will be penalized with fines.
• Health authorities and specialists reiterate core prevention steps: cook meat thoroughly, avoid cross-contamination, wash produce, use pasteurized dairy, ensure safe water and practice strict hand hygiene.
• SUH remains a serious, notifiable disease in Argentina and is reported as the leading cause of acute renal failure in children under five, with press reports estimating roughly 300 cases annually.
• Most infections stem from Shiga-toxin–producing E. coli linked to undercooked minced meat, unpasteurized products, contaminated produce, unsafe water and person-to-person spread in childcare settings, and severe cases may require hospitalization, transfusions or dialysis.