Salmonella Outbreak Hospitalizes Six in Pamplona Bar
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Six people went to hospital in Pamplona, Spain. They had gastroenteritis. This sickness makes your stomach hurt.
Doctors say the people had salmonella. Salmonella is a small germ. It can make people very sick.
The people ate food in a bar. The bar is in the Casco Viejo. This is the old part of Pamplona.
The people ate a food with egg in it. Doctors think the egg had the germ.
The six sick people went to the HUN hospital. HUN means Hospital Universitario de Navarra.
This was an outbreak. An outbreak is when many people get sick at the same time from the same thing.
Health workers are now looking at the bar. They want to know how the egg food had the germ.
Vocabulary15 words
- gastroenteritis
- a sickness in your stomach
- salmonella
- a small germ that makes people sick
- Casco Viejo
- the old part of a city
- outbreak
- when many people get sick at the same time
- hospital
- a place where sick people get help
- germ
- a very small thing that can make you sick
- egg
- a food from chickens
- bar
- a small place where people eat and drink
- sick
- not feeling well
- admitted
- to go into a hospital for care
- health workers
- people who check on sickness
- food
- things people eat
- product
- a thing made or sold
- city
- a big town
- stomach
- the part of your body where food goes
Quiz
Answer key
1. In a bar in the Casco Viejo 2. A product with egg 3. True
Fill-in-the-blank listening
Play the audio again and fill in the missing words as you listen.
Six people went to hospital in Pamplona, Spain. They had _____.
Doctors say the people had _____.
The people ate food in a _____.
The bar is in the _____. This is the old part of Pamplona.
The people ate a food with _____ in it.
The six sick people went to the _____ hospital.
This was an _____. Many people got sick at the same time.
Health workers are now looking at the _____.