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Paramedics Attend To Restaurant Patrons in Raleigh

By PritzkerLaw

Paramedics were called to a restaurant Friday night in Raleigh, North Carolina, to attend to at least nine cases of possible foodborne illness.

Independent Weekly quoted a Wake County health official saying that an outbreak of illness was under investigation, but the official wouldn't even say if the patients ate at the same restaurant.

"Typically we don't implicate a facility until we have confirmation of lab results,'' Andre Pierce, director of environmental health and safety division of the county's environmental services division, told the weekly. "The investigation is ongoing and we don't have any results yet.''

But the newspaper checked with the Raleigh-Wake 911 Center and an official there said the center received an emergency call shortly before 10 p.m. Friday for help at Evoo, a Mediterranean restaurant in Raleigh's Five Points.

When the paramedic unit arrived, it called for backup and additional personnel were dispatched to the scene. In all, the newspaper reported, nine rescuers attended to victims at the restaurant.

According to the online comments of an unidentified reader of the Independent Weekly story, investigators are not only investigating for possible food poisoning. Reportedly, the officials also are looking at the possibility that a virus was brought into the restaurant by a customer or third party.

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Full post as published by Food Poisoning Law Blog on April 23, 2009 (boomark / email).