Posted on 03/22/2008 10:14:40 PM PDT by freespirited
A kitchen worker at a Hicksville pizzeria has contracted typhoid fever, putting more than 100 customers at risk for the .potentially deadly bacterial infection, the Nassau County Department of Health and the restaurant said Saturday.
Customers who ate at Mama Sbarro's at 265 Broadway in Hicksville on March 14, 15 and 16 -- when the infected employee last worked -- have a "low risk" of contracting the rare intestinal infection, the Health Department said.
The department emphasized that Mama Sbarro's had passed two inspections since Friday evening, when the county was informed of the kitchen worker's condition. The restaurant, which did not know the employee had typhoid fever until Saturday, had no major health violations in the last two years and would remain open, authorities said, because it was safe to eat there...
Cynthia Brown, a spokeswoman for the Health Department, said current customers are not at risk.
Brown said the infected kitchen worker told authorities that he always wore gloves while handling food, making it unlikely the disease was transmitted. Also, the restaurant's employees were seen wearing gloves when preparing food during unannounced visits, Brown said...
Authorities would identify the kitchen worker only as a New York City man. He worked without symptoms on March 14 and 15, and had some symptoms on March 16, authorities said. He called in sick on March 17.
Typhoid is a bacterial infection passed on through eating food or drinking water containing infected feces or urine. It is rare in developed countries.
The disease may have been passed to the kitchen worker from relatives visiting from overseas, authorities said, though they would not say from what country or when the relatives visited.
The man was treated at a hospital and released last week and is now undergoing treatment with antibiotic drugs, authorities said.
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Ya think there is a reason this info has been classified?
One of my coworkers picked up typhoid in Malaysia a few months ago visiting in-laws. It was a little bit worrisome!
Typhoid Mario’s Pizzeria
I predict their business will really fall off...
Exactly which sea does a Mexican have to cross to get to us?
Not *everything* can be blamed on Mexicans...
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/mor_typ_and_par_fev-mortality-typhoid-and-paratyphoid-fevers
Not too hard to figure out what country the guy is from.
Thank you Content Provider.
That chart is an eye opener.
Just think if the person had been named Mary.
I swear I almost ate in Hicksville’s Mamma Sbaros last week. I chose Jani, a chinese place across the street.
Hicksville has a growing sub-population of (Asian) Indians and hispanics. Thyphoid Jose almost certainly was an illegal from Honduras or El Salvador. They are found in the kitchens of most Long Island restaurants.
“Typhoid is a bacterial infection passed on through eating food or drinking water containing infected feces or urine.”
Looking at the chart leads me to believe that Mexicans don’t wash there hands before leaving the bathroom.
Probably the Rio Grande during flood season. LOL
My grandmother died of Typhoid fever in 1916, two weeks after my father was born.
It was those damn South Africans! I knew it!!
10 to 1 it’s an illegal alien from SOMEWHERE, likely from Mexico or Central America. What authorities DON’T want is a panic, but they also are afraid of the ACLU/MALDEF crowd in terms of lawsuits if they come out and say “He’s not REALLY from NY...he’s an illegal alien from...”
The wonders of unrestricted immigration never cease to amaze. It’s a gift that keeps giving and giving. Murder, rape, disease, burglaries, assaults, pedophiles, drunk drivers and the list goes on and on.
Here’s a pleasant story for ya .......
Not so much an eye opener but cold hard facts to back up what I’ve suspected.
Yeah, so had that crane in NYC.
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