Looking around the web tonight, I found an interesting, if not distressing story about boy scouts getting food poisoning from EColi at a scout camp at the end of July. We had kids throwing up at camp too, but it’s because they could buy a pint of Blue Bell ice cream cheaper than they could buy water.
This story comes to us from the August 3rd edition of eFoodAlert.com. I couldn’t resist this bit though…
According to the Washington Post article, campers are enjoying their experience in spite of the outbreak – “…working on merit badges, learning celestial navigation on night hikes, motorboating and shooting rifles.”
Perhaps a new merit badge – Principles of Food Safety – should be added to the Boy Scouts’ syllabus.
As if camping in July for a week wouldn’t be tough enough, those poor folks had much worse things to deal with. I just hope they’re all feeling better now.
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