100 ill from Mormon church pot luck in Nevada

Food poisoning caused more than 100 people to become sick following a potluck dinner at a Mormon church in Nevada.

A local hospital in Logandale, Nevada has seen people coming in with good spreadsymptoms of gastrointestinal flu all week long.

The outbreak in the Moapa Valley area that has sickened dozens of people.

‘We had 80 people here on Monday. Just today we had three more patients who were at the potluck come in,’ the official said.

Southern Nevada Health District officials would only confirm they are conducting an investigation of a foodborne illness outbreak resulting from a private potluck dinner held in Logandale, NV last weekend.

 

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