“We hope it is a slight process"
Antonio Turmo, head of medical services of Espanyol, has confirmed that up to eight first team players are affected by an outbreak of gastroenteritis, although he suspects that the number may rise in the coming hours despite the effort to isolate the other players.
The club’s doctor has said that it is "a very acute outbreak, self-limited in time and hopefully slight, but not all are affected equally," and has also said that "the transmission is still very fast. The origin seems viral, highly contagious, and we are already taking samples for culturing and more information. There seems to be food-borne but can’t be excluded".
Dr. Turmo has also recognized that "it is not ideal to face a match in these conditions in the next 48 hours because these charts just always affected the performance of athletes. However, our confidence is that most cases do not appear, but we can’t say for sure. "