An Uninvited Dinner Guest? Marcella is a 43 year-old woman who has been working

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An Uninvited Dinner Guest? Marcella is a 43 year-old woman who has been working hard toward getting healthy and fit. Over the last year, she has been eating more fresh fruits and vegetables and has been working out regularly six days a week She has also committed herself to buying her fruits and vegetables from her local farmer's market. While she likes the fresh produce at the market, her favorite stall is Johnson's Dairy, a local farm that sells raw milk and cheeses. Marcella is having her friend Sarah over for dinner, so she decides to splurge and buy a variety of cheeses for appetizers Marcella and Sarah have a great dinner -cheese and cured meat appetizer grilled fresh fish, vegetables, salad, and a peach cobbler for dessert. They decide to get together again in a couple of days to go for a long bike ride The morning of the bike ride, Marcella wakes up with a low fever and abdominal cramps. She's really looking forward to the bike ride, but when she starts having diarrhea, she calls Sarah and cancels. Marcella feels pretty awful for the rest of the day the cramping and the diarrhea continue. That evening, Sarah calls Marcella and tells her that she has started having cramps and diarrhea as well. They decide that it must have been something they ate at dinner earlier in the week. Both decide that it will probably run its course" and that they'll be fine the next day. 1. Do you think that the dinner is to blame for Marcella and Sarah's sickness? 2. What part of dinner could be the culprit? 3. What control measures could have been implemented in the preparation of the dinner to prevent Marcella and Sarah fromm becoming sick?

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1.       Yes, the sickness could be due to dinner. As both are suffering from the same symptoms after the dinner.

2.       The sickness could be due to raw cheese they picked from the local farmer and ate it raw as appetizers.

3.       Cooking the cheese before consumption could have helped them to prevent this sickness as cooking kills micro organisms that could be present as contaminant in the raw food.

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