Re: [97attendees] Food poisoning

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

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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.

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