09.nov.06
WPMI-TV NBC 15 Mobile (AL)
http://www.nbc15online.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=2DD02343-D558-47A0-B765-2396347751C0
(FOLEY, Ala.) -- In Escambia County, Alabama there have been 7 positive cases of Salmonella or Salmonellosis, while Baldwin County reports 39 positive cases;
But the numbers for Mobile County may shock you: a whopping 85 cases already. Last year, for the entire year, there were 88 cases in Mobile County.
Judith Como of Foley was quoted as saying, "I had a birthday and my sisters took me out. I was really excited and feeling good about the day. When we got our food, the soup wasn't hot and there were a few discrepancies, but we ate. … It was around 6:30, 7:00 o'clock that night, I started feeling really sick. The trips to the bathroom, constantly, and you could barely make it. And the cramps, I was physically and mentally exhausted, embarrassed and humiliated. They admitted me (to the hospital) and I was there for 6 days."
Tests showed she had contracted Salmonella, a bad bacteria that causes serious irritation of the stomach and colon. Apparently, it has been biting a lot of unsuspecting customers in this area.
Judith Como says she is shocked there have been at least 39 reported cases in Baldwin County where she lives.
Teresa Porter, a Surveillance Nurse Coordinator, was quoted as saying, "It's hard to trace food poisoning to any one, particularly one place because of it's incubation stage. It can be as long as 3 hours to 72 hours. The average is 12 to 36 hours." Which means, the last thing you ate isn't necessarily the thing that made you sick.