Overview
- The Moscow Department of Health reported that all six adults live in one apartment and had eaten homemade pickles and similar preserves.
- Patients are hospitalized in a specialized infectious-disease facility with conditions described as severe or moderate.
- Rospotrebnadzor has opened an epidemiological investigation and, with city health officials, has identified products that may have caused the poisoning.
- The agency’s press service said the family consumed a home-canned vegetable salad now under scrutiny.
- Authorities emphasized that botulism is foodborne, not spread between people, and broader transmission is not anticipated.