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DAVID MURRAY, ANIKA HUME THE COURIER-MAIL MARCH 03, 2015 12:00AM
SALMONELLA poisioning has hospitalised 24 people after one of the biggest food poisoning outbreaks in Queensland.
Queensland Health has confirmed 175 people have fallen ill after eating at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on Thursday and Friday.
None of the people that have been hospitalised are in a critical condition, but their conditions vary, with the food poisioning ?exacberating? some pre existing conditions, Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said.
Authorities are working out what food on the ?variable? menu was eaten by the people who fell ill.
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Queensland Chief Health Officer re Food Poisoning Outbreak BCEC - 3March2015
HealthierQueensland
Published on Mar 2, 2015
On Sunday we were alerted that a number of people had fallen sick after attending a conference at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
This morning I can confirm that we now have 175 people who are unwell and of those, 24 people have required hospitalisation.
And we believe, although it?s very, very early days at this stage, we believe it?s due to Salmonella.
So we?re working very closely with the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre to work through the menus that were served while these people attended and we?re also of course talking to the people who are unwell to work out the commonalities, and just to confirm that it was due to their attendance at the convention centre and that they hadn?t been elsewhere while they?ve been attending that conference.
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DAVID MURRAY, ANIKA HUME THE COURIER-MAIL MARCH 03, 2015 12:00AM
SALMONELLA poisioning has hospitalised 24 people after one of the biggest food poisoning outbreaks in Queensland.
Queensland Health has confirmed 175 people have fallen ill after eating at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on Thursday and Friday.
None of the people that have been hospitalised are in a critical condition, but their conditions vary, with the food poisioning ?exacberating? some pre existing conditions, Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said.
Authorities are working out what food on the ?variable? menu was eaten by the people who fell ill.
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Queensland Chief Health Officer re Food Poisoning Outbreak BCEC - 3March2015
HealthierQueensland
Published on Mar 2, 2015
On Sunday we were alerted that a number of people had fallen sick after attending a conference at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
This morning I can confirm that we now have 175 people who are unwell and of those, 24 people have required hospitalisation.
And we believe, although it?s very, very early days at this stage, we believe it?s due to Salmonella.
So we?re working very closely with the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre to work through the menus that were served while these people attended and we?re also of course talking to the people who are unwell to work out the commonalities, and just to confirm that it was due to their attendance at the convention centre and that they hadn?t been elsewhere while they?ve been attending that conference.
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