There’s this fetish for running through mud.
I don’t get it.
I’d rather play hockey and have someone shot a puck at my head at 90 mph.
Of the almost 8,400 runners who took part in Mud Day activities on 20 June in Nice on the French Riviera, about 1,000 have been stricken with gastroenteritis. Probably Campylobacter or Salmonella.
The Alabama Department of Public Health is now investigating reports of widespread illness after 86 children, all sharing similar symptoms, were seen at three Montgomery hospitals. The children attended two different day care centers in the area.
Thirty children were hospitalized with symptoms of lethargy, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and cramps. All but one child has been discharged.
A kitchen at the Sunnyside Child Care Center has recently been closed for the investigation. The kitchen prepares meals for more than 300 children who attend the two day care centers.
Parents whose children attended these day care centers and became ill are advised not to use any day care providers as the investigation continues.
Health types say there’s now about 100 people sick from eating at at Tarheel Q, located at 6835 West U.S. 64 in Lexington, NC, several days before becoming ill.
A sign posted on the door Wednesday said the restaurant would close until Monday, June 29, “to ensure all areas of our operation are of the highest standard.”
Though inspectors are still working to figure out the source of contamination, the restaurant was asked to clean and sanitize all surfaces including the walk-in refrigerator.
A couple were struck down with Salmonella after staying in a Turkish hotel where several other guests fell ill with an unspecified illness.
James, 36, and Amanda Billaney, 35, were diagnosed after staying at the Majesty Club Tarhan Beach hotel in Didim on the west coast.
They and their children aged nine, seven and three, of Hull, were all ill. They blamed children reportedly having diarrhea in a pool.
Other families told on TripAdvisor of unspecified illness with one writing: “Our holiday was a nightmare, staff were also ill and at least five families.”
Slater & Gordon, lawyers for several holidaymakers, are investigating an alleged “breakdown in hygiene”.
The hotel said there had been “some kind of infection/virus” and it had stepped up cleaning.
Uh-huh.
When I was in prison, no one thought much about food safety. There was a cannery, and inmates prepared food, made pruno, and extracted revenge, I guess.
Prison kitchens in Michigan managed by contractors would be required to have food safety inspections under recently introduced bipartisan legislation.
Democratic Rep. John Kivela and Republican Rep. Ed McBroom announced the legislation Wednesday. It comes in response to recent news that inmates at a Jackson-area prison found maggots in a food preparation area.
Philadelphia-based Aramark Correctional Services operates Michigan’s prison food services as part of a three-year, $145 million contract.
The legislation would make prison kitchen facilities subject to the same routine food safety inspections that are required for other food establishments in Michigan. The contractor would have to pay for the inspections.
McBroom says it seems reasonable that prison kitchens “face the same strict inspections as required by any kitchen serving the public.”
The Texas Department of State Health Services alerted health care providers this week to be on the lookout for cyclospora. The state’s count is at 54 cases.
The alert says reports of the illness have been high in Texas each of the past three summers. But state health department spokeswoman Carrie Williams says a surge like the one over the last week is unusual.
Williams says there are no known hospitalizations or deaths related to the illness.
A number of pets linked with an E. coli outbreak in Dorset are being tested as experts work to identify the source.
It follows the discovery of the E. coli O55 strain in animal droppings outside a house of a family recently affected.
Public Health England (PHE) described this – the first non-human case – as “interesting.”
Two children were treated in hospital for serious kidney problems following E. coli O55 infections last month. They have since been allowed home.
It is not clear whether the fecal sample which tested positive came from a wild or domestic animal.
A cluster of cases of the bacterial illness in Dorset was investigated in November 2014, with another outbreak in May, but no common source was found.
I used to have a big chest freezer. It was a place where meat and frozen meals went to disappear.
My grandmother had this huge one in the basement, where she kept freezer-burned ice cream and her cash (she didn’t trust banks, or so I was told).
I’ve downsized to the little one on top of the fridge and am much more vigilant about stuff in, stuff out.
Chinese customs have seized around 3 billion yuan ($625 million) worth of smuggled meat, some more than 40 years old and rotting, the official China Daily said on Wednesday, the latest in a grim series of food safety scares.
Beijing toughened food safety rules in April to shake off a reputation for safety scandals that range from donkey meat tainted with fox DNA to milk contaminated with industrial chemical melamine that killed at least six infants in 2008.
Chinese authorities have launched a crackdown on beef and frozen meat smuggling, in addition to a campaign last year to stamp out the smuggling of farm products.
Authorities had busted 21 criminal gangs by June, leading to seizures of more than 100,000 tonnes of smuggled meat, including chicken wings, beef and pork, state news agency Xinhua said. In one bust, police in southern Hunan province arrested 20 people.
Customs officials found some of the meat was more than 40 years old, meaning it dated back to the 1970s. Other parts were rotten and decomposing, the China Daily newspaper said. It was not clear if the seized meat had been destroyed.
Industry sources say hundreds of thousands of tonnes of beef is being smuggled into China via neighbouring Hong Kong and Vietnam, from countries such as Brazil and India, to sidestep Beijing’s import curbs.
Meat can last for a long time if continuously frozen, but smuggled meat is often moved under poor storage conditions that lead to repeated thawing, making it eventually go bad.
So far 38 children from a Montgomery daycare center, all under the age of 10, have come to the Baptist South Medical Center emergency room with foodborne illnesses, and hospital officials anticipate more may be coming in later tonight. So far the hospital has not seen any illnesses that have appeared life-threatening.
“As of about 30 minutes ago, we have admitted eight, and we are opening a unit specifically for these patients,” said hospital spokeswoman Merrill South at a little after 7 p.m. Tuesday night. “There is a possibility more will come in tonight. We really don’t know what that number may look like.”
The children came in exhibiting symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea, but South said while doctors have determined it is a foodborne illness, there is still no diagnosis of what kind of food poisoning is involved.
While it is almost certain that it is something the children ate at Sunny Side Child Care Center, he said foodborne illnesses cover a large number of causes, and until they determine what the cause was it is difficult to speculate on the possible severity.
A new shop at Disney’s Animal Kingdom is serving up desserts that look like varieties of animal droppings.
Four kinds of poo are now in the case amid the caramel apples and marshmallow treats at Zuri’s Sweets Shop.
The news of the new “poop” treats became known to the public through the official Twitter page of Mickey Updates.