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I had the noro virus 2 years ago. Not fun at all. Husband got it from someone and gave it to me. I did have food poisoning once from eating tuna salad at a local deli. I thought it tasted a bit sour but I was so hungry I did not care and that's not usual for me to eat something that tastes funny. Needless to say 1/2 hour later I was throwing up. It took me 3 years to eat any tuna fish salad and now I will only eat it if my mom and I make it.
No, I haven't been working. I'm smarter than that.
And to my knowledge, I haven't eaten any fecal matter lately
the poster didn't mean it that way, it is from hands that have been near fecal matter and not necessarily from actually touching anything other than a door knob for instance. In fact if you work at a restaurant, you are a prime candidate for the noro virus.
the poster didn't mean it that way, it is from hands that have been near fecal matter and not necessarily from actually touching anything other than a door knob for instance. In fact if you work at a restaurant, you are a prime candidate for the noro virus.
Nita
Thank you, that is exactly what I meant. The virus is stable in the environment, therefore it spreads like a rocket from the toilet, to faucet handles, to doorknobs to the glasses that people touch in restaurants, to the silverware that is placed, to the food that is prepared, etc. Obviously there are a lot of ways to greatly reduce the likelihood of spreading or contracting the virus, but there are a lot of ways to inadvertently spread it.
Part of the reason that people spread the virus is because they don't realize how it spreads, why it spreads so easily, and how long a person remains (or can remain) contagious.
Two weeks flat of my back down town Detroit in Doctors Hospital from an egg salad sandwich. In a ward fill with people dying of cancer in pain. Two of the worst weeks of my life. Like to have died from dehydration before going to the doc.
I've had food poisoning three times in my life, that I know of. Once was from food at a picnic/potluck. Once was from a fast food Mexican restaurant chain and once was from undercooked pork sausage that I cooked myself. Blech!
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Have you ever contracted food poisoning or Norwalk from eating out?
