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19 hospitalized after eating feces-contaminated food at party: report
The Times-Picayune ^ | 7/2/2018 | Kim Chatelain

Posted on 07/03/2018 5:41:33 AM PDT by Gamecock

At least 19 people were hospitalized as of Monday (July 2) after eating food that had been contaminated by exposure to feces at a neighborhood potluck birthday party in Charlotte N.C., the Charlotte Observer reported.

More than 40 people were sickened and more could become ill with a "highly contagious" disease called shigella, which causes diarrhea.

Someone who prepared food for Saturday's party, which was attended by about 100 people, did not wash their hands well enough...

(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...


TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: health; potluck; shigella
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To: Gamecock

We had a similar thing on Eastern Shore of Maryland years ago, where a church noted for its yearly stuffed ham bake sickened scores of people due to improper meat refrigeration and cooking temps. It had been their big fundraiser and people came from miles around, but no more.

Our local church is very small, but requires all food handlers to take a certification course.


61 posted on 07/03/2018 7:34:26 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law." --Abraham Lincoln)
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To: hal ogen
I was in nepal a couple years ago. I caught a 24 hour gi fever/vomiting from a pizza. I now call kathmandu...kathmandont. What a festering, unsanitary dump.
62 posted on 07/03/2018 7:34:37 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Cmp?)
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To: Gamecock

Nasty stuff. Decades ago at an outdoor work party on a Saturday afternoon we had about 100 people there, no more than half of them showed up at work Monday and we weren’t really back to normal until Thursday. Some were hospitalized. I was young then and choose to rough-it by not going to the hospital, and it was bad.

We traced it to mayonnaise, which was in the macaroni salad. The weather was hot that day and it only takes a very short time for the microbes to reach critical mass in mayonnaise when conditions are right, and you WILL NOT notice any change in taste - the stuff tasted great.

So I am very leery about anything with mayonnaise where I can’t be sure of the history of it. If it’s a restaurant, for example, it’s probably ok. Same with a buffet if it’s cold (as in refrigerator temperature). But a party, any party, that isn’t professionally catered - no thanks, I’ll find something else to eat.


63 posted on 07/03/2018 7:54:51 AM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: Fresh Wind

Yes.


64 posted on 07/03/2018 8:36:01 AM PDT by Gamecock (In church today, we so often find we meet only the same old world, not Christ and His Kingdom. AS)
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To: SE Mom

My parents did the stuffing in bird as well.

But you can’t trust everyone to be as careful. As evidenced by the experience of my former church goers.


65 posted on 07/03/2018 8:39:18 AM PDT by Gamecock (In church today, we so often find we meet only the same old world, not Christ and His Kingdom. AS)
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To: BobL

I leave mayonaisse in the sun before eating it.


66 posted on 07/03/2018 8:40:28 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The New York Times is so openly dishonest, even their crossword puzzles lie.)
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To: Lazamataz

You’ll eat anything. :)


67 posted on 07/03/2018 9:07:38 AM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: Born to Conserve
"Nepalese average IQ is 78." No shΩt?
68 posted on 07/03/2018 9:09:38 AM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON; Army Air Corps; KC_Lion; CopperTop
I would avoid the duck, too.


69 posted on 07/03/2018 9:11:25 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

Did they use the bouillabaisse as a toilet?


70 posted on 07/03/2018 9:12:55 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Gamecock

I saw this yesterday. The headline made it sounds like the food was purposely contaminated.


71 posted on 07/03/2018 10:48:45 AM PDT by BBell (Ich bin Ein Wenig Teekanne ):>()
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To: Larry Lucido

There’s always the consommé.


72 posted on 07/03/2018 1:09:24 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: BenLurkin

‘How do you say “Go back where you came from” in Nepalese.’

poop poop a doop...


73 posted on 07/05/2018 6:00:51 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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