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    75 students rushed to Chiang Mai hospitals suffering from food poisoning

    75 students rushed to Chiang Mai hospitals for foods poisoning - The Nation

    75 students rushed to Chiang Mai hospitals for foods poisoning

    July 9, 2012 4:56 pm

    Chiang Mai - Nearly 100 school students suffered from foods poisoning after eating boiled eggs donated from a parent Sunday evening.


    Seventy-five of them were rushed to two hospitals late Sunday nigh and twenty of them were treated at schools.

    Officials said 60 students were rushed to Nakhon Ping Hospital and 15 to San Sai Hospital. At the Nakhon Ping Hospital, 44 were admitted as inpatients and ten had to be watched closely by doctors.

    Saenthong Hattirangkul, deputy director of the Sueksa Songkroh School, said a parent donated 1,300 boiled eggs to the school for dinner for the students Sunday. The parent said the eggs had been boiled and offered to a spirit as a rite to fulfill promise.

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    Must have been an evil spirit.

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    probably started with 1 student with slight gut ache followed by 74 kids jumping at the chance to be center of attention and be mollycoddled. Any excuse to go and have a lay down..........Thai people are like cats.....not that I blame them in this climate.

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    Eggy farts, better open the windows.

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    What did they do, go to Sankamphaene Hot Springs to boil 1,300 eggs?

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    I'll bet you she boiled them at home, and had the finally boiled one sitting in the sun, waiting to rot.

    "Spirit will take care"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cthulhu View Post
    I'll bet you she boiled them at home, and had the finally boiled one sitting in the sun, waiting to rot.

    "Spirit will take care"
    I was thinking pretty much the same thing, too bad the spirit did not have a refrigerator. The way food is left out here, the Thais play Russian roulette with Salmonella daily.

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    If someone had 1,300 eggs available to "donate" they're probably getting shut of out-of-date stock.

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    maybe had a grudge

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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    Eggy farts, better open the windows.
    Was it only last week Tax when you were spouting vapidly from the Lonely Planeteer's bible on Thai cuisine and How it Changed my Life it's Soooo Good Everywhere in Thailand telling us how safe and delicious it was?

    Gosh, whodda thunk it?

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    I think I'll stick with the oeuf cocotte!

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    Quote Originally Posted by thegent View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    Eggy farts, better open the windows.
    Was it only last week Tax when you were spouting vapidly from the Lonely Planeteer's bible on Thai cuisine and How it Changed my Life it's Soooo Good Everywhere in Thailand telling us how safe and delicious it was?

    Gosh, whodda thunk it?
    When I see a photo of kids in hospital sitting up eating noodles, see photo in sd's post above, I begin to wonder if the diagnosis of food poisoning is correct.

    Sounds more like a case of like worried teachers and doctors and mass hysteria in the children to me.

    I still maintain that contrary to appearances, freshly prepared thai food is in the main perfectly safe.

    Thais, from an early age, are intimately involved with food, with its growth, its rearing, its harvesting and its preparation, storage and cooking. The taste of their food is a badge of honour to them.

    Contrast that with westerners, most of whom dont know what a live chicken looks like and have never seen animals or crops in their natural state and without a microwave by their side would starve within a week.

    I am inthe uk at the moment, and eaat out a lot, and as in thailand am in the habit of questioning serving staff about the ingredients and method of preparation of the dish I am ordering. Mostly I am met with blank looks from the gormless idiots. There are no ten percent tips from me thats for sure.

    In thailand, even in the most basic of eating places, the staff, who may not know what day of the week it is but they can certainly tell you what ingredients are in your food, and exactly how thefood is prepared. Thailand can be faulted on many levels , but on its appreciation of food and all thi ngs related to food, itcan only be praised.

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    Tax, it's about time you came back. You've obviously been overcome by a severe bout of Thailanditis and been rendered stupid.

    For Chrissakes, of course anyone in a Thai eaterie would know the ingredients and how the dish was prepared - scrawny fatty ped, crappy nua leather,chopped gai or moo, fried or boiled, flavoured with shallots,garlic,galangal,chillis, a few bits of leaves, curry paste, soya sauce, nam pla, fish/kung boiled or fried ( usually tasting of mud ), leathery fish cakes, al served with the same aforesaid herbs etc and accompanied by rice ( boiled or fried ) or noodles and the same bloody leaves cooked in garlic. And that's it. The bloody same menu in every bleeding restaurant, in every soi, in every town, in every city all dished up in the same bloody way. Christ on a bike, you'd have to be a total cretin if you worked in a Thai restaurant and didn't know what was what and how. It never fucking changes.

    The average Thai wouldn't be able to distinguish a decent joint of Mey beef, free range Gloucester black spotted saddleback grunter or a decent poulet bresse from a fucking hamburger he's so profoundly ignorant.

    They eat warmed over dog food served up in a fucking plastic bag wheeled through the back streets at 7 in the morning from a ghastly soup kitchen and left to stew on rubbish strewn, rat infested streets. That's the reality. Now, Tax, get your brain in gear and appreciate what you've got and stop romanticising.

    P.S. Can you bring back some Black Farmers sausages please. Just the plain ones, thank you.

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    There is a degree of sameness in Thai cuisine which palls relatively quickly. The standard of hygiene, as TG says, is bloody disgraceful. Dishes are washed in cold water (and its dirty water if its a street vendor's stall) using a filthy rag which is also used to wipe snot from children's heads. Hand washing is not a frequent practice and wearing plastic gloves which are changed every night is of no hygienic benefit. Sorry Taxexile, but I think you may have the rose coloured glasses turned up a notch to high.

    As for the eggs, I suspect the donor realised it was too risky to sell them and instead, gave them to the school trusting in the fat gutted one to keep the likkle kiddies safe and well.

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    The standard of hygeine certainly looks poor when compared to kitchens in the uk that look more like operating theatres, but as I have said before, eating dirt gives your immune system a good boost.

    In the uk, the number of people with food allergies, allergies to this, allergies to that, intolerance to the other. All this has happened in the past twenty years, in other words since western people have become obsessed with "germs", nasty horrible germs lurking everywhere, fact is most of those germs are harmless pathogens that pose no danger, but getting rid of them with sprays, wipes, irradiated food and jobsworth health and safety inspectors just leaves the door wide open for the more dangerous organisms to thrive.

    Hardly ever encounter food allergies in thailand, and in spite of millions of people patronising street stalls on a daily basis, the incidence of serious food poisoning outbreaks is remarkably low.

    They have built up a natural immunity to the relatively harmless pathogens that like it or not, we are destined to live with on this planet. But the more the harmless ones are destroyed, then the greater the prevalence of the dangerous ones.

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    They must be ''Wimps'' my wife gives eggs that fail to hatch in the Incubator to Uncle, He sells em at His Road side shop 'Alloy mak mak!

    I think they mush be a month old at that stage......arrr

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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    The standard of hygeine certainly looks poor when compared to kitchens in the uk that look more like operating theatres, but as I have said before, eating dirt gives your immune system a good boost.

    In the uk, the number of people with food allergies, allergies to this, allergies to that, intolerance to the other. All this has happened in the past twenty years, in other words since western people have become obsessed with "germs", nasty horrible germs lurking everywhere, fact is most of those germs are harmless pathogens that pose no danger, but getting rid of them with sprays, wipes, irradiated food and jobsworth health and safety inspectors just leaves the door wide open for the more dangerous organisms to thrive.

    Hardly ever encounter food allergies in thailand, and in spite of millions of people patronising street stalls on a daily basis, the incidence of serious food poisoning outbreaks is remarkably low.

    They have built up a natural immunity to the relatively harmless pathogens that like it or not, we are destined to live with on this planet. But the more the harmless ones are destroyed, then the greater the prevalence of the dangerous ones.
    This is really quite appalling and from a westerner too, quite unforgiveable and worthy of dribbbling old decrepits drawing upon nothing other than ignorance and stupidity. In that respect you Tax seem to share much with the dumbo ignoramuses that proliferate in the boonies of Thailand and elsewhere.

    Bacterial presence in the gut is no defence to viral infections such as norovirus, nor is it likely to protect you from C.Difficile, Salmonella or botulism.

    Rolling around in the dirt when one was ten years old 50 years ago is no defence. The problem with environments today is that in most societies in western developed democracies enjoying an affluence much greater than the last generation enjoyed is the sheer amount of food we consume which is prepared outside the home. It is this explosion in catering dependent upon so many variables that has caused a corresponding increase in infections and episodes of ingestion adverse reactions.

    Simple really but quite amazing how many so called intelligent farang do not understand the phenomenon but prefer suckling on the teat of their old wives' tales.

    I should imagine Tax is probably quite old.
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    Personal attacks are unprofitable for all concerned and not terribly dignified. However, hygiene is what has led the developed world to remain healthier for longer; and to promote the myth that we are becoming a weaker race because we are concerned with hygiene is simplistic and wholly incorrect.

    The continued extension of life expectancy, and the reduction of the incidence of death among very young children in developing countries is as a direct result of better hygiene. Rolling around in the dirt is fine as long as the dirt is clean. Rolling around in the fetid gutters and drains of back street Thailand is not a clever thing to do. The few immunological benefits will quickly be countered by the desperate illness which continues to afflict the children of people whose concept of hygiene is yet to include hand washing.

    In England or Australia or Canada letting kids have fun in the sand pit is okay. Here, in the Land of Dog Shit, it is quite a different state of affairs.
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    This is really quite appalling and from a westerner too, quite unforgiveable and worthy of dribbbling old decrepits drawing upon nothing other than ignorance and stupidity.

    The problem with environments today ............... bla bla bla.

    Simple really but quite amazing how many so called intelligent farang do not understand the phenomenon but prefer suckling on the teat of their old wives' tales.

    I should imagine Tax is probably quite old.
    The problem with environments today is an unfortunate increase in the prevalence of bombastic opinionated blowhards with little knowledge or understanding of the subjects they smugly pontificate on.
    Blinkered by their own stale prejudices and deafened by their own incessant bleatings they fail to notice that which stares them in the face and persist in boring others to death with their endless hyperbolic insults and utterances as they attempt to justify the outdated and discredited theories that shape their miserable unfulfilled existences.

    Read a little about the hygiene hypothesis.

    Age has little to do with my views, but judging by the irrelevance of your rigidly held second hand beliefs and views I would imagine that I have probably been on this earth for much less time than yourself.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blue water dreaming View Post

    Personal attacks are unprofitable for all concerned and not terribly dignified.
    Nonsense. I derive immense satisfaction from them and I'm sure it makes folk buck their ideas up a bit. Nothing quite like a bit of abuse to get those cyber juices flowing.

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    4.35am and posting, whats up gent, leaky bladder? Cyberjuice spillage?

    Its only 11pm here in blighty.
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    The bitter irony of it all! I ate out last night and awoke suffering from stomach cramps. Couldn't get back to sleep.........

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    The BKK Post today reports its up to 460 students. The eggs were 3 days old and should have been reboiled.

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