The salmon mousse!
Posted on 07/15/2018 7:12:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin
An investigation continues into what has caused hundreds of visitors to a Tennessee zip line destination to suddenly develop a gastrointestinal illness. More than 500 people have reported symptoms including stomachache, nausea and vomiting after visiting the CLIMB Works Zipline Canopy Tour in Gatlinburg.
The Tennessee Department of Health announced Thursday that officials are continuing to look for the cause of the illnesses.
“At this time, we cannot point to one simple cause of this outbreak,” John Dunn, the department’s deputy state epidemiologist, said in the news release about the investigation.
Since June, several visitors to the CLIMB Works facility tested positive for the common stomach bug norovirus, according to the department. Norovirus causes acute gastroenteritis, or inflammation of the stomach or intestines. Symptoms, which typically last one to three days, include diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach pain.
One patient tested positive for both norovirus and enteropathogenic E. coli, a diarrheal pathogen, according to the department. Symptoms of E. coli infection may last several days.
“Preliminary testing and environmental health assessments indicate the water system at the zip line facility may have contributed to the outbreak; however, there are likely other sources involved in the spread of the illnesses, including contaminated surfaces and person-to-person transmission,” Dunn said.
“Water testing has indicated fecal contamination of the facility’s water system,” he said. “Additional preliminary testing has identified enteropathogenic E. coli. Testing of clinical and environmental samples is still underway to look for bacterial, viral and parasitic organisms. It’s important to note that while norovirus is reliably identified in stool samples during outbreak investigations, identifying it in food, water and the environment is more challenging.”
The Department of Health said CLIMB Works, which uses well water, has been cooperating fully with the public health investigation.
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This is how the phrase “unwashed masses” came about. It’s also why I stay away from this sort of thing.
“We can’t understand the problem? We been filling these water jugs outta that stream for years.”
On the other thread someone said, well, they all wear the same attached gloves. Makes sense. Every hand in the same glove. Maybe surgical gloves first.
a ‘sick-in-stomach-illness’ ... huh
The salmon mousse!
There was an episode of Doc Martin (PBS, great Show) where people in town were afflicted with Diarrhea.
At first the Doctor thought the link was the local Swimming Pool and pissed off the guy who ran it.
Then he suspected the Local Water Supply and caused a panic.
Turns out it was a guy selling bottles of French Spring Water. The Doctor found out when he caught the “mislabeled” Bottles being filled by the guy using his own Spring, which happened to fed by Water from a Pasture area full of Farm Animals.
BYOG
Bring Your Own Gloves
Hmmm, you never know these days.
I find it even more interesting that there were 500 people going “zip lining” to get sick in the first place.
I’m out of touch, too old, or something. Thinking about it, I would not have been interested even at whatever age is the demographic for this kind of stuff.
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