Posted on 11/01/2017 4:09:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
More than 300 recruits at the Marines’ boot camp in San Diego are suffering from diarrheal symptoms from an bacterial outbreak, officials disclosed on Tuesday.
With most of the cases linked to Shiga toxin-producing E.coli bacteria physicians are treating 302 patients out of the more than 5,500 candidates undergoing training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
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The bacteria was identified in recruits at both the depot and at Edson Range at Camp Pendleton beginning on Wednesday but the number of cases spiked on Monday, officials said.
Ten recruits were transported to an undisclosed hospital off the base for additional care.
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Family members will be notified if the illnesses delays a recruit’s graduation date and no drill instructors or other base staffers appear to have contracted the malady, he added.
While investigators continue searching for the source of the contagion, commanders have quarantined sick recruits from those who have yet to display symptoms, mandated increased hand washing and ensured proper sanitation in all training areas, officials said.
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Because it looks just like bird droppings.
Eww.
Check the muslim kitchen workers
All my knowledge is from those who experienced it. I wasn’t there at the time. My testimony is entirely hearsay.
Not seeing that in downtown O-side. Don’t go by the pier or down my the beach much. Carlsbad surprises me. I am in the village all the time and don’t even see homeless
That was my favorite at the mess hall.
When I was in basic we all had URI viral syndrome. The whole damn flight was on turpenhydrate and codeine and darvon.
We did some of our best PT timed runs after coughing up a lung first. Noting hurt.
The Air Force's response? "If you go to sick call they will give you some day quill."
And that was that.
To top it off I caught a regular cold the day I graduated and was sick the whole time I got to visit my parents.
Poor bastards, never did figure out what they ate that we un-afflicted did.
Three companies in my battalion had dysentery in the field after some bad chow. There was no shower point for a couple of weeks, drenching storms followed by mud, etc. They still had to do their training schedule.
Never cared much for the chipped beef. In grade school, they served the ground beef and gravy on mashed potatoes, and that was always good. We called it gravy train, and it was very popular. And I love sausage gravy over biscuits.
I'd never had creamed chipped beef until I went to MCRD San Diego. God I loved that stuff!
Mother of all Breakfasts?
We did our mess and maintenance week before we went to Edson Range. Three platoons mess, one platoon maintenance. Of course, ours had mess detail.
I've never been able to determine if that was a good thing or not. Perhaps they figured I wouldn't do any damage...
Neither the drill instructors nor the base troops are ill. It makes you wonder if mess hall food is the culprit since they all eat in the same mess halls, follow the same daily menus, and eat food items being drawn from the same commercial vendors.
The question is “What would the recruits eat that drill instructors and base troops might not be eating?”
Well, a lot of drill instructors are married and draw commuted rations (COMRATS) allowance. If they do, they would have to pay for their meals in the messhall. The on-duty drill instructors do take the recruits to their meals and do eat with them. This duty rotates during the day and overnight, so the drill instructors are being exposed to the mess hall and its food. Base personnel are in a similar situation. Some draw COMRATS, some don’t. The ones that don’t, do eat at the mess hall. So there is some exposure for them as well.
However, if MREs were being served as the midday meal out at the firing ranges or during maintenance week, the drill instructors might choose not to eat the MREs to avoid having to pay for them. Base personnel might not eat them because they can rotate going to and from the mess hall or because the Marines drawing COMRATS may choose to get fast food/bring food from home/go hungry to avoid having to pay for them.
The recruits, on the other hand, will eat the MREs as they have no alternative.
I wonder if the vector is contaminated MRE meals?
BTW, like your tagline. Haven’t got a clue as to what the club is about but it sort of sounds like being a competitor for the Darwin Award. You have to be killed (or nearly killed) to find out you are a finalist.
Semper Fi!
Rodents?
The sidewinders must not be as bold as they used to be.
we would sometimes find them right outside the squadbays.
Him or Uncle Jose’ from Tijuana!
Did they send those tacos from Ft. Drum to San Diego?
The same thing happened in November 1977 at MCRD San Diego. A large number of recruits got the runs because they lost hot water in the gallery.
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