SINGAPORE: Salmonella infection behind PrimaDeli food poisoning - (The Straits Times)
December 6, 2007 – 7:19 pmAssociate Professor Dale Fisher, a senior consultant from the National University Hospital’s division of infectious diseases, was cited as saying that PrimaDeli cakes, currently behind an islandwide wave of food poisonings, could have been contaminated by eggs or cream laced with bacteria, or, bacteria-carrying food handlers may not have washed their hands properly after hitting the loo,, adding, “This is why our mothers taught us to wash our hands after going to the toilet and before meals.”
The story says that in the last two weeks, at least 109 people here have been stricken with severe diarrhoea, stomach pains and fever after eating chocolate cakes from the PrimaDeli bakery chain.
Eight people were hospitalised, but have since been discharged.
Two of the bakery’s workers have tested positive for the salmonella enteritidis bacteria - which had also been found in the hospitalised patients - even though they had not been sick. That suggests they […]
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