I can’t count the number of times I’ve been served raw sprouts at some food safety function. Or departmental meeting involving science types who should know better.

Preaching and practice are different things, I guess.

Erie County Health Department officials in Ohio are still running tests and going through questionnaires in an effort to learn what made dozens of people sick at a conference of health workers last week at Sawmill Creek Resort in Huron.

At last count, 44 people reported becoming sick during a Creative Health Care Management convention that drew about 300 people Tuesday through Friday to Sawmill Creek.

The sudden onset of the illnesses led to the theory that the illness might have been caused by a norovirus, health officials said.