BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Health officials are investigating how 145 people became sick after a beer and oyster festival at Fager’s Island restaurant in Ocean City earlier this month.
Our media partner, The Baltimore Sun, reports the Maryland Department ofHealth and the Worcester County Health Department are looking into an outbreak of gastroenteritis among those who attended the event.
Gastroenteritis is an intestinal infection marked by watery diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea or vomiting, and sometimes fever. according to the Mayo Clinic.
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6 comments:
Was it the oysters or the EVO beer?
145 people sickened? And probably no consequences for the restaurant because of who owns it.
Close them down! Sue them into the poor house!
First it was the Oyster Festival in Chincoteague and now this Oyster event at Fagers Island in Ocean City?
Maybe it was too early to harvest these oysters or maybe these were Gulf oysters contaminated by the Hurricanes. People around here seem to think they have to get oysters from the Gulf of Mexico all the time and pass them off as local.
Immunity strikes again.
Most probable!! Waters locally still way too warm
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