[nw_arizona_granny]

I don't recall having heard of a cruise ship getting sick before 9-11.

I started picking up groups getting sick about four years ago, a group of 500 at a company picnic got about the same as the Norovirus. In New Jersey as I recall. ( I didn't have the Internet then, so had only the radio reports).

It struck me as odd, as I have been to a lot of buffets and didn't eat the same food as the person next to me. It would take some effort to make the whole group sick.

It does not seem to me that the person on the street gets it, but only in large groups.

The Hepatitis outbreak from the green onions, is another example, there was another outbreak, since the one with the mexican food, not connected, at first report.

Promed reported that the onions never showed the germs, but that the water the onions were washed at on the farm, was "not stored in a proper tank", it is strange that the Hepatitis germ was only found in the sick people and not on the food.

There was one casino in Reno, Nv that had norovirus last year.

Alarm bells go off for me, when I hear of a disease that hits only people who are in a large group, having expensive fun.

All the old diseases are still going around the world.

I don't have room to save the Promeds on my old computer and can't figure out how that I can post them here, as I can't download and then get them back off this computer, so would have to forward a copy to anyone who wants the info from it, by regular e-mail.

Ruth

[hummingbird]

Promed reported...

Is this the International Society for Infectious Diseases site? (promedmail.org & fas.org/promed/)

[Cindy]

re post no. 7526...

A good site to look up information regarding that subject is:

CDC.gov
http://www.cdc.gov

[bonesmccoy]

I'm a board certified physician. I agree with EVERYTHING you said. Good job!

[GOPJ]

What do you think it is?

Alarm bells go off for me, when I hear of a disease that hits only people who are in a large group, having expensive fun.