Thread: Gross! Why woman died of e coli

In Rowan County, Salisbury NC, a senior citizen died from e coli. Seems a kitchen was contaminated by -get this- 4 cooks "of Hispanic decent" that brought in a live goat after hours and gutted it. The knives were used to serve food with and were contaminated by this goat slaying. The resturant has been closed. Whats up with that??

Uhm...is this really true? Do you have a link to this story?

Sounds good, but a link is necessary or it should be removed.

Restaurant linked to E. coli shut down
SHARIF DURHAMS AND ADAM BELL
sdurhams@charlotteobserver.com abell@charlotteobserver.com

SALISBURY --Health officials closed a China Grove restaurant linked to a deadly E. coli outbreak today after learning some employees slaughtered a goat there last month.

At a news conference this afternoon, Rowan County Health Director Leonard Wood said that on Friday, a former employee of Captain's Galley Seafood Restaurant on Main Street in China Grove told health officials a goat had been slaughtered there.

Wood said the restaurant's owners confirmed the report of the goat slaughter over the weekend. He ordered the restaurant closed today.

News of the slaughter was "very disturbing" to him and the restaurant's owners, Wood said.

"They don't know if or when the restaurant will reopen," he said.

On Thursday, 86-year-old Salisbury resident Faye Sides died at Rowan Regional Medical Center of complications related to an infection of a dangerous strain of the bacteria E. coli. Her death was the first from E. coli that local health officials in Cabarrus and Rowan counties could recall.

She was one of 21 people who got sick after eating at the restaurant, Wood said.

Health officials said they interviewed 26 employees and heard conflicting stories. The goat was slaughtered some time between May 11 and May 20, Wood said. Restaurant patrons got sick between May 26 and June 3, Wood said today.

Several of the employees were Hispanic, Wood said, and health officials used a translator to conduct some of the interviews.

Health officials cannot prove the outbreak of the intestinal disease was caused by the goat slaughter, Wood said. It will be hard to establish a link without finding part of the goat carcass.

"I'm not sure we'll ever be able to confirm the goat (as the source of the illness), or anything, for that matter," he said.

Cabarrus and Rowan health officials said today they had eight confirmed cases and 13 other suspected cases.

The patients in Rowan and Cabarrus have E. coli O157-H7, the most dangerous strain of the bacteria. It can contaminate beef, fruit juice and other foods. It can cause severe food poisoning symptoms, including damaged kidneys and bloody diarrhea.

The bacterial infection affects the intestines and stomach. People are usually infected by drinking contaminated beverages or eating contaminated food.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 20,000 people are poisoned each year in the U.S. by E. coli O157-H7, although most people recover from it in a week. A few hundred people die from it annually, mostly young children and the elderly.


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Staff writer Kat Greene contributed.

CHINA GROVE — Rowan County Health Department officials say employees at the Captain's Galley slaughtered a goat in the restaurant's kitchen days before several people who had eaten there became sick with E. coli.

The restaurant has been closed down, effective today.

Health Department Director Leonard Wood said in a Monday afternoon press conference that employees butchered the goat after hours and without the owners' consent sometime between May 11 and May 20.

An anonymous tip from a former employee led to the discovery.

"Any connection of this act as the cause of the E. coli outbreak from the Captain's Galley of China Grove is still under investigation by the Rowan County Health Department," a statement said.

A 86-year-old woman who had eaten at the restaurant died last week of complications from an E. coli infection. Seven other people have tested positive for E. coli, and health officials are looking into 13 other probable cases.

Those probable cases mean the people reported symptoms of E. coli 0157 and had been at the restaurant at the time the majority of the people affected have reported eating there — May 25-June 1.

http://www.salisburypost.com/breaking/2 ... 136484.php

Oh my gosh, people need to STOP hiring these mod edit and definately keep them FAR FAR away from our food sources. Disgusting.

Here is the link to Ronny's story.

http://www.charlotte.com/breaking_news/ ... 64872.html

And people wonder why I do not eat at restaurants.

I saw this story on local newsstation, (WGHP ch-8 ) and the local fishwrap, (Greensboro News & Record) and neither of them mentioned the fact that these food preparers were hispanic. I naturally assumed they were though, due to the goat being the meat, as well as the fact that most restuarant jobs around here, (central N.C.) have been taken over by hispanics!!!