Irwin Mitchell are currently pursuing claims on behalf of two holidaymakers who travelled to the Sharm Plaza, Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt in June 2010, both of whom fell ill with unpleasant gastric illness. One holidaymaker has confirmed Salmonella and still suffers with ongoing symptoms.
The holidaymakers have told us that they fell ill with gastric symptoms including vomiting, diarrhoea and stomach cramps. They were aware of other guests who were staying at the hotel at the same time and who suffered from similar symptoms. The holidaymakers have described worrying examples of very poor food hygiene standards in the hotel. Flies and wasps were often seen in the eating areas. Meat such as chicken was often bloody or pink in colour, food was hardly covered and sometimes appeared to be re-heated.
The holidaymakers also describe problems with other aspects of the hotel, including swimming pool water often being dirty with incidents of faeces being found in the pool.
The conditions at the hotel and epidemiology described would indicate that the likely source of the infection was contaminated food provided as part of their package holiday.
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