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It is still unclear what happened to the family in Söderhamn who came into hospital with stomach symptoms.
The Public Health Authority is now involved to help carry out more advanced tests, according to Aftonbladet’s information.
– For the time being, you can say that it is a mystery, says District Attorney Christer Sammens.
On Sunday, October 15, a whole family sought treatment at Hudiksvall hospital for severe symptoms that resembled stomach flu.
A four-year-old girl was so ill there that she died.
The mother of the family and another child, two years old, are still being treated in hospital with serious symptoms. The father has been discharged.
The death is being investigated as a murder, but no one is a suspect in the case – according to the prosecutor, it is not certain that a crime has been committed.
200 subjects without hits
But several different actors are involved in the work to find out what happened to the family; both the police, the Poisons Information Centre, the Forensic Medicine Agency and now also the Public Health Agency.
According to Aftonbladet’s information, the Public Health Authority, FHM, was involved after samples taken from, among other things, food scraps and vomit had already been compared against 200 substances without any hits.
Now, therefore, FHM, which has better equipment and diagnostics, must do its own tests, according to Aftonbladet’s information.
– I dare not answer exactly why they are connected. We have been in contact with the Poison Information Center and it has probably developed that way, says District Attorney Christer Sammens.
The Public Health Agency writes in an email to Aftonbladet:
“Information about individual patients is, as always, subject to confidentiality, but the Public Health Authority knows the cases and is in contact with the responsible region.”
No known threat to the family
The four-year-old girl has been autopsied, but no definite conclusions from the autopsy have yet been released.
– Hopefully we can get more information about it soon, says Christer Sammens.
Sammens says that it is not yet known how or what the family ingested that made them so ill.
– The only thing we can rule out is that they got food poisoning in the sense that they ate food that had been lying around for so long that it went bad, he says.
In parallel with finding out what happened to the family, the police also investigate whether there was a threat of any kind against the family, or whether there was a history of violence within the family or the like.
– And as far as I know, nothing like that has been found, says Christer Sammens.