- Hello Jeff - One wonders what country these employees
were from. This is why I do not eat in restaurants. - Patty
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- If this story was honest journalism, you wouldn't have
to wonder about 'what country these employees were from'...the story would
report it. But this is NOT honest journalism. It is, of course, yet
another example of LYING, PC journalism.
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- Lying because this kind of 'reporting' withholds
material facts about a deadly event...in this case, at the least, manslaughter.
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- The LIE of OMISSION is one of the most despicable forms
of lying of all. Honest journalism is predicated on the 'five Ws'... Who,
What, Where, When, Why (and How). Lying by omission in this story
is particularly outrageous because the nationality of the employees is
the KEY ingredient in the story. And no one seems to be bothered that
the 'journalists' are protecting them. In a sense, they are involved in
the coverup of criminal information. - JR
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- ESCHERICHIA COLI O157,
RESTAURANT - USA (NORTH CAROLINA)
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- From ProMed Mail
- By Sharif Durhams and Adam Bell
- Charlotte (NC) Observer
- 6-19-7
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- Health officials closed a China Grove, NC, restaurant
linked to a deadly _Escherichia coli_ outbreak on Mon 18 Jun 2007 after
learning some employees slaughtered a goat there in May 2007.
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- At a news conference, Rowan County Health Director Leonard
Wood said that on Fri 15 Jun 2007 a former employee of Captain's Galley
Seafood Restaurant in China Grove told health officials a goat had been
slaughtered in the kitchen. Wood said the restaurant's owners confirmed
the goat slaughter over the weekend. News of the slaughter was "very
disturbing" to him and the restaurant's owners, Wood said. "They
don't know if or when the restaurant will reopen," he said.
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- On Thu 14 Jun 2007 an 86-year-old Salisbury resident
died at Rowan Regional Medical Center of complications related to an infection
of a dangerous strain of the bacterium _E. coli_ [O157:H7]. She was one
of 21 people who got sick after eating at the restaurant, Wood said.
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- Health officials said they interviewed 26 employees and
heard conflicting stories. The goat was slaughtered sometime between 11
and 20 May 2007, Wood said. Restaurant patrons got sick between 26 May
and 3 Jun 2007, Wood said.
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- Health officials cannot prove the outbreak of the intestinal
disease was caused by the goat slaughter, Wood said. It will be hard to
establish a link without finding part of the goat carcass. "I'm not
sure we'll ever be able to confirm the goat (as the source of the illness),
or anything, for that matter," he said.
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- Greensboro lawyer David Brown, who represents the restaurant
owner, said he believes 2 or 3 employees were involved. One had been with
the restaurant for a while and was a person "in whom we had confidence,"
Brown said. The other 2 employees were recent hires, he said.
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- Brown said he was told the goat wasn't killed "for
some religious or cultural reason, but simply a desire to cook the goat
and eat it." Brown also said the employees bought the goat from a
local farmer and brought it into the restaurant after hours, Brown said.
The employees killed the goat in the kitchen, but took it elsewhere to
cook, Brown said. The attorney said the employees didn't use the restaurant's
utensils.
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- Health officials announced the _E. coli_ outbreak on
7 Jun 2007. Officials said they learned of another suspected case of _E.
coli_ on 18 June 2007, bringing the total to 8 confirmed cases and 13 suspected
cases.
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- http://www.charlotte.com/local/story/165275.html
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- Contributed by ProMED-mail
- promed@promedmail.org
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- The association of _E. coli_ O157 and restaurants is
not new and, in fact, undercooked ground beef from a fast food chain caused
the initial outbreak of the disease in 1982 (1). Since then, outbreaks
have occurred related to ground beef and a variety of other vehicles including
unpasteurized cow's milk, contaminated water (for swimming or drinking),
petting zoos and contaminated uncooked vegetables.
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- Other domesticated animals have also been associated
with the organism besides bovines, including goats (caprines). Outbreaks
have been associated with unpasteurized goat milk (2) and ProMED has previously
reported cases associated with goat cheese (20060512.1356). Not surprisingly,
goats in petting zoos have been found to carry the organism in the gastrointestinal
tracts (3,4).
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- Although meat from the slaughtered goat was not available
for testing (hence, no "smoking caprine"), this outbreak is unique
for this possible epidemiologic link.
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- 1. Riley LW, Remis RS, Helgerson SD, et al: Hemorrhagic
colitis associated with a rare Escherichia coli serotype. N Engl J Med
1983;308: 681-85. 2. Bielaszewska M, Janda J, Blahova K, et al: Human _Escherichia
coli_ O157:H7 infection associated with the consumption of unpasteurized
goat's milk. Epidemiol Infect 1997;119: 299-305 3. Heuvelink AE, van Heerwaarden
C, van Oosterom R, et al: Bezoek aan kinderboerderij de oorzaak van het
hemolytisch-uremisch syndrom. Infektieziekten Bulletin 2000;11: 275-77.
4. Debroy C, Roberts E: Screening petting zoo animals for the presence
of potentially pathogenic Escherichia coli. J Vet Diagn Invest 2006;18:
597-600.
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- The location of Rowan County central-west North Carolina
can be seen at:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_County,_North_Carolina>.
- - Mod.LL
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD
- Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics
- Univ of West Indies
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board at:
- http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php
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