Practical exercise

Outbreak of food poisoning

Dr. Nanees Ismail
 Case problem
On October 10/2005, a dinner party was held at one
restaurant,
•At 8 pm, the dinner was served for all 110 attendees.
• 45 of the attendees developed gastroenteritis over a period
1-8 hrs,
•10 persons did not eat the dinner, none became ill.

Q1) Calculate the attack rate for those who ate the dinner
and those who did not?

Use the following food consumption history table (next

slide) for answering Q2& Q3
 Ate the food Did not eat

Food item Ill Well Total Ill Well Total

Macaroni 25 15 40 20 39 59

Chicken 17 38 55 28 16 44

Dressing 43 47 90 2 7 9

Potatoes 40 52 92 5 4 7

Ice cream 20 1 21 25 53 78
Q2) Calculate the attack rate for those who ate and those
who did not eat for each food item?
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Q3) Mention which food items most likely caused this

outbreak?
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