Girl Recovering From Salmonella
Poisoning
Mom Wonders If Daughter's Illness Is
Connected To National Outbreak
Source of Article: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/mostpopular/18440767/detail.html January 9, 2009 BOSTON -- Sara McInerney, 7, is back
home and healthy after a scary bout of salmonella poisoning that she didn't
know she had. That's because she was taking antibiotics for strep throat that
caused the salmonella to try to hide by going into her bloodstream.
"It was very scary because the fevers just kept going up.
Although she was on an antibiotic it just continued to go up," said
Sara's mother, Paula McInerney. Newscenter 5's Amalia
Barreda reported that at one point, Sara's fever
spiked to 107 degrees. She was rushed to Sara's mother said she wonders if her daughter's case is connected to
a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds of people in 42 states. And
she is frustrated because she said health authorities have not contacted her.
"I thought that they should have at least contacted me to let me
know, or to ask questions," said McInerney. Dr. Al DeMaria of the Massachusetts
Department of Public Health said local health departments are supposed to
follow-up cases of salmonella that are reported to them. DeMaria
said there have been more than 30 cases in "The culture has to grow the salmonella. The salmonella then has
to get from the laboratories to the state laboratories. It gets tested, it
gets identified, it gets fingerprinted. We're
talking about several weeks," said DeMaria. Sara got sick the day before Thanksgiving but her mother doesn't
believe it was the holiday dinner because everyone else was fine. McInerney suspects the culprit was chicken from a
fast-food restaurant that she doesn't want to name unless health authorities
name it first. |
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