CALIFORNIA: Resort restaurant reopens after outbreak of illness: Health officials suspect gastrointestinal illness spread when someone failed to wash their hands - (Contra Costa Times)
November 18, 2007 – 8:19 pmAptos — Sanderlings, the Seascape Resort restaurant closed Wednesday by a foodborne illness that sickened at least 80 people, reopened Saturday and, according to this story, even catered a wedding.
County health officials suspect norovirus, a highly contagious gastrointestinal illness, spread through the hotel restaurant when someone failed to wash their hands, but have been unable to pinpoint the source of the contamination.
Bob Kennedy, the county’s director of environmental health, was quoted as saying, “We don’t have any exact knowledge of where it originated from.”
The story explains that Sanderlings’ management contacted the county Health Services Agency on Monday night after people who had attended a weekend medical conference at the beachfront resort called from the hospital.
Jim Maggio, Sanderlings’ manager, was quoted as saying, “Some conference attendees were the first to report an illness, followed by some of our employees.”
More than 1,000 people could have been exposed to the gastrointestinal virus last […]
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