TY  - JOUR
T1  - FOod-poisoning by chicken sandwiches
AU  - QUIGLEY DT
Y1  - 1909/09/11
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.92550110035002d
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 866
EP  - 866
VL  - LIII
IS  - 11
N2  - A few weeks ago eighty-three people gathered at a new barn seven miles north of North Platte at a dance. At 1 o'clock in the morning they were served with a lunch consisting of chicken sandwiches, cake and coffee. The chicken had been prepared the day before by being cooked, cooled and run through a sausage chopper. The weather was very hot and humid. The chopped chicken was kept over twenty-four hours before the sandwiches were made and eaten. The next day, about twenty hours after the supper, fifty-two people who had eaten the lunch were reported sick. Later several more reported, making the whole number about sixty. All who had eaten the chicken were sick, but those who ate cake and coffee and did not eat chicken were not affected. All these patients suffered practically the same symptoms, differing only in degree. They were taken with severe
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.92550110035002d
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550110035002d
ER  -