After Party Sickness
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| Amanda Tetlak |
| 6/22/2009 |
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| After a night of fun at a wedding dance, you may expect to wake up the next morning not feeling your best, but not from salmonella poisoning. That`s what happened to dozens of people who either attended a wedding in Washburn or a family reunion in Wilton on the same weekend. The state Health Department says more than 40 people got sick. Nine of them ended up in the hospital, and two in intensive care. Doug Ness had to take four days off of work from his job as a chiropractor at Active Life Chiropractic in Bismarck last week. "I couldn`t leave my bed," Ness says. " Basically it was bed to bathroom and it wasn`t much fun." He was just one of many who got sick from salmonella bacteria after eating from the taco bar at his friend`s wedding in Washburn. "Later than afternoon I`d heard from some of my friends that went to E.R. and they had I.V.s and were given morphine for the pain or discomfort so from there we kind of knew something was going on," Ness says. Others reported the same symptoms of nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea after a reunion in Wilton hosted by the same caterer. "There`s a common caterer but it`s really too soon to identify what`s really happened here," says state epidemiologist Kirby Kruger. "We`re still doing some investigation and we`re still waiting for some results to come back." In the mean time, the state health department is offering some tips when you`re preparing food to avoid a food-borne illness outbreak. Wash your hands frequently, cooks meats thoroughly, 165 degrees for poultry. And don`t cross-contaminate foods, use separate cutting boards and knives for meats and vegetables. So that maybe at the next summer wedding Ness goes to, he won`t have to worry about how he`ll be feeling the next day. The state health department says it hopes to have lab results back by the end of the week to determine exactly what food items contained the salmonella bacteria. |
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