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Food Poisoning
Four cases occurred in one family due to the consumption of chicken
infected with Clostridium Welchii. This infection is normally associated
with inadequate cooking, slow cooling and reheating of meat, and its occurrence
in chicken emphasises the need to ensure thorough cooking and rapid cooling of
all meat products and the avoidance of reheating.
Typhoid
One case of typhoid was notified and investigated. This involved
an 18 year old female who had attended a youth camping expedition in Morocco.
All members of the party had been advised to have T.A.B. inoculation but the
patient did not obtain this protection. The investigation was protracted and
painstaking but no further cases were reported and the patient recovered.