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Wonder who did not wash his hands?



300 People Linked to Illness on Lake Erie Island
Aug 20, 2004


More than 300 people appear to be linked to a mysterious illness including nausea, fever, and vomiting in recent weeks on Lake Erie's South Bass Island, health officials said.


Health officials have documented 301 cases and are investigating 94 other claims of illnesses, Ohio Department of Health spokesman Kristopher Weiss said Thursday.

Most of the people had visited the island in the first two weeks of August, but some cases go back to early June, he said. So far, health officials have not found a source.

Symptoms including nausea, chills, fever, abdominal cramps and vomiting have generally lasted about 24 hours. Most people said they became sick within two or three days of visiting the island, which is about halfway between Toledo and Cleveland.

Put-in-Bay, a popular tourist spot on the island, draws about 15,000 people by boat on the weekends.

Test results from private labs confirmed four cases of campylobacter - a common infectious disease usually coming from food or water contaminated with bacteria. A fifth person tested positive for salmonella, which is generally spread through contaminated food or water, Weiss said.

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3,257 posted on 08/20/2004 12:34:15 PM PDT by jerseygirl
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To: jerseygirl

Wonder who did not wash his hands

Or what food was contaminated.. Have been noticing as of late lots of restaurants and grocery store bathrooms have either no soap in the dispensers or no way to dry your hands after washing them. Carrying germicide is a necessity. We keep ours in our vehicles and use it each time we return to the car from public places where we have touched anything at all. Paranoid? I don't think so - there's no shortage of people with no personal cleanliness and no shortage of people who want us incapacitated running around the country.

Leprosy in the USA

Leprosy and TB Fast Growing in the USA

The above article says that there are now 7,000 cases of Leprosy and possibly more and US citizens never out of the country have contracted it. More reason than ever to keep your hands clean!

3,282 posted on 08/20/2004 2:59:45 PM PDT by MamaDearest (Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man’s spirit than when we win his heart.)
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