NEW YORK: Food worker at Hicksville pizzeria has typhoid fever - (Newsday.com)
March 23, 2008 – 7:04 pmhttp://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-lityph0323,0,1867250.story
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/03/articles/salmonella/new-york-pizza-worker-has-typhoid-fever/index.html
The Nassau County Department of Health and the restaurant were cited as saying Saturday that a kitchen worker at Mama Sbarro’s pizzeria, 265 Broadway in Hicksville has contracted typhoid fever, putting more than 100 customers at risk for the potentially deadly bacterial infection, with the Health Department quoted as saying that customers who ate at restaurant on March 14, 15 and 16 — when the infected employee last worked — have a “low risk” of contracting the rare intestinal infection.
The department emphasized that Mama Sbarro’s had passed two inspections since Friday evening, when the county was informed of the kitchen worker’s condition. The restaurant, which did not know the employee had typhoid fever until Saturday, had no major health violations in the last two years and would remain open, authorities said, because it was safe to eat there.
Denise Chatel, 50, of Commack, who had eaten there Saturday with her son […]
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