[Leica] Indian food illness

[gregj_lorenzo at hotmail.com (Greg Lorenzo)]

Horrid food bourne illness can occur anywhere in the world including North 
America. I was hit by and hospitalized for over a week from 
campylobacteriosis in the late 1980's 2 days after consuming a chicken 
sandwich from a local fast food outlet.

 

An experience you long remember. To this day I am extremely reluctant to 
consume any food without knowing how it was handled and prepared.

 

Vigilance goes a long way to avoid such illnesses.

 

Greg Lorenzo

Calgary, Canada

 
> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:58:28 -0500
> From: lrzeitlin at gmail.com
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] Indian food illness
> 
> *Jayranard's comments about the relative risk of eating from Indian street
> vendors is right on target. I was a professor at the Univ. of Delhi from
> 1986 through 1988. My very health conscious wife and my young daughter were
> with me. She ate properly, cooked all our food, stayed away from everything
> suspicious - and became deathly ill from bacillary dysentery. On the other
> hand, I ate lunch every day from a street vendor who shoveled me a heaping
> spoon full of steaming dal dotted with unrecognizable well cooked morsels 
> of
> something or other on a banana leaf. I washed it down with a bottle of 
> Campa
> Cola or mango soda and ate a banana (which I peeled myself) for dessert. I
> had no intestinal problems for two years other than an occasional belch. My
> older daughter and son in law were US State Dept. employees in Bangladesh 
> at
> the time and told us horrific tales of widespread food poisoning. The
> largest hospital in Bangladesh was the Diarreheal Institute. Enough said.*
> 
> **
> 
> *Jayanard's view about having antibodies to all Asian diseases is oft
> debated by my Indian colleagues in the US. Many had joint appointments
> teaching alternate years in India and the USA. They claimed that after a
> year in the US, they suffered the same ailments on returning to India as a
> typical tourist. One even proposed making "Pollution Pills," small capsules
> of Indian noxious agents that they could consume daily during their stay in
> the US so as not to lose their immunity. Sounds like a a good business idea
> to me.*
> 
> **
> 
> *Larry Z*
> 
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