Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the symptoms of the illness correlate more closely with staphylococcal food poisoning than viral gastroenteritis, the disease that the engineer decided upon even if it was a virus, it still could have been transmitted through the central kitchen...
...thorough investigation of all the cases involved, rather than the "too-late to tell" analysis that the health department provided, might have revealed whether the virus was in the school's food supply...
This engineer's easily-reached conclusion may be satisfying for the University's Environmental Health and Safety Department, but for those who had the illness, and for those who might get it in the future, the unrelated food-virus verdict is insufficient and dangerous...
...manner of investigation and case-closed verdict of a virus leaves more questions unanswered than resolved. Students who complained of illness had symptoms that did not correspond with viralgastroenteritis, but rather staphylococcal food poisoning...
...take into account that in Eliot House, where most of the cases occurred, only about one in five sickened students bothered to report their illness to UHS--a figure that would reinforce the probability that it was a form of mass staphylococcal infection, rather than simply a small virus-susceptible minority, which was affected...