Re: [97attendees] Food poisoning

I think I remember that one.  Bad potato salad served at the conference 
luncheon.  Got half the attendees or there abouts.

Just goes to show you there is little you can do in planning a 'safe' place.

Bob

On 11/20/2016 11:56 PM, David Allan I wrote:
> Standard
>
> I got taken out big time at a standards meeting in San Diego in 2005, 
> along with most of the meeting attendees.  (t’was not quite the scale 
> of an IETF).
>
> Who’d have thunk it….
>
> Dave
>
> *From:*97attendees [mailto:97attendees-bounces@ietf.org] *On Behalf Of 
> *Robert Moskowitz
> *Sent:* Sunday, November 20, 2016 8:21 PM
> *To:* Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com>; John C Klensin 
> <john-ietf@jck.com>; Shane Kerr <shane@biigroup.cn>; Aaron Falk 
> <aaron.falk@gmail.com>; 97attendees@ietf.org
> *Subject:* Re: [97attendees] Food poisoning
>
> And a colleague had something food related to put him down for a day 
> at IEEE 802 plenary in San Antonio the week prior to IETF.
>
> So it can occur anywhere to anyone.  Sigh.
>
> On 11/20/2016 09:42 PM, Adam Roach wrote:
>
>     On 11/20/16 8:05 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
>
>         Incidentally, while the vegetarian advice is probably good, one
>         gets full protection that way only if one peels and/or washes
>         one's own vegetables in water whose safety is known and/or
>         observes other precautions.
>
>
>     Indeed. The worst case of food poisoning I ever had, we managed to
>     trace with fairly high confidence to a salad (there were a group
>     of 12 of us; 8 got sick, and the sick/not-sick division lined up
>     precisely with who got soup versus salad as their starter).
>
>     Furthering the point about this being a pretty random factor, the
>     only time I've had (medically diagnosed) food poisoning outside of
>     the country was during the most recent Paris IETF meeting. I
>     certainly wouldn't exclude France from future consideration on
>     that basis. I don't think we can take anecdote as venue input.
>
>     /a
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