Former President Carter hospitalized with “stomach virus”

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Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly resting at Cleveland hospital after feeling ill with symptoms resembling a norovirus infection.

Carter’s grandson, Georgia state Sen. Jason Carter, said his 85-year-old grandfather was doing fine. 

"He’s definitely resting comfortably and expected to continue his book tour this week," Jason Carter said. "I haven’t talked to him, but nobody in the family is concerned."

Carter is scheduled to appear tonight in Durham NC as part of a national book tour.

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Dr. Ben Chapman is a professor and food safety extension specialist at North Carolina State University. As a teenager, a Saturday afternoon viewing of the classic cable movie, Outbreak, sparked his interest in pathogens and public health. With the goal of less foodborne illness, his group designs, implements, and evaluates food safety strategies, messages, and media from farm-to-fork. Through reality-based research, Chapman investigates behaviors and creates interventions aimed at amateur and professional food handlers, managers, and organizational decision-makers; the gate keepers of safe food. Ben co-hosts a biweekly podcast called Food Safety Talk and tries to further engage folks online through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and, maybe not surprisingly, Pinterest. Follow on Twitter @benjaminchapman.