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Bates contrac By Gordon Hirsch ana raary L.ou Smart oamacock Staff Writer* After spending more than a week in Richland Memorial Hospital with salmonella, a bacterial infection contracted from spoiled food or dirty eating utensils, Kathy - * 1 * 1 ' miuci, m 11 ctiiiiiittii nursing siuaeni and Bates House resident, says she doesn't want to cause any trouble, but she is upset. Miller said she has eaten at Bates House all semester, but because no one there caught the disease except her she doesn't want to btyihe it on USC Dining Services. Ted McDaniel, USC representative of AHA food services, said he was not informed of the incident. McDaniel said anytime someone gets sick from eating at a university dining hall, samples of the food and utensils must be frozen and inspected. "I was not informed of the problem, and if I had been, we would have closed the cafeteria, until the matter was settled*' McDaniel said. "Anytime someone gets sick. I want to know about it I have nothing to hide." Miller said she started to feel ill early on Wednesday evening, Nov. 15; however it was early Thursday morning before roommates finally convinced her to go to the infirmary. "I thought it was just a stomach ache," she said. "I started drinking Pepto-Bismal, but nothing seemed to help. When I got to the infirmary they wouldn't even admit me. The nurse on duty said there was a doctor on call for emergencies, but she didn't want EXAM S( Regular final exams are hel close of the semester. No tests i class meetings prior to the < schedule for the Fall semeste 9:00 a.m. 2 Exam Dec. 13, Wed. TTH 9:30 N Dec. 14, Thurs. MWF 11:15 1 1 Dec. 15, Fri. MWF 10:10 1 Dec. 16, Sat. TTH 11:00 A Dec. 18, Mon. MWF 9:05 fl Dec. 19, Tues. TTH 12:30 1 MWF 4:40 Dec. 20, Wed. MWF 12:20 B -f Single Meeting Classes Betwc \ N&orl a nice* Annr HAMPTON PARK 1 -2-3 bedroom op convenient to U. S 4427 Blossom | :ts food ii to wake him because I didn't look that sick." rohimpH tn fhn in firmary Thursday afternoon. The doctor on duty told her she was dehydrated and that she could either go home and take some medication or stay at the infirmary. "I decided to stay in the infirmary,'* she said. "I hate to think of what would have happened if I had gone home and just taken aspirin." About 24 hours after Miller was admitted to the infirmary the doctors decided to send her to Richland Memorial Hospital. "They'd kept telling me, there's nothing wrong with you. There's no reason to call your parents because you're going to be well by the time they get here. Finally an intern came in, looked at me and said, 'I think we'd better send you to a hospital.' " "IT WAS AWFUL. I was vomiting and had an extremely high temperature, about 104 degrees. /ITie fever wouldn't go down and I felt terrible," Miller said. Doctors treated her at the hospital for seven days. "It took them a long time and a lot of tests to find out what was wrong with me," she said, and she said she still hasn't completely recovered. When asked where she eats now, Miller responded, "I eat in my room or I don't m! I nmw iwpW tn eat in my room; the only place I ate was downstairs. I mean, you spend so much money for it (Bates House meal plan), that I would feel kind of bad if I didn't eat there." 3HEDULE d over a seven day period at the ire scheduled during the last two examination period. The exam r is as follows: :00p.m. 5:30p.m. 7:45p.m. Exam Exam Exam IWF 1:25 MW 5:30 W 7:30 W 4:15-7:00 TH 2:00 TTH 5:30 TH 7:30 TH 5:00 TH 4:15-7:00+ [TH 8:00 flWF 8:00 ?WF 2:30 MW 7:00 M 7:30 M 4:15-7:00+ [TH 3:30 TTH 7:00 T 7:30 T 4:15-7:00+ tfWF 3:35 sen 4:15 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. tment? offers luxurious ; artments .C. Call 782-6626 sident lfection McDaniel said he couldn't understand why Miller was the only student who became sick. "We serve over 600 meals a night at Bates House," he said. According to McDaniel, salmonella is caused by contaminated meats or spoiled foods. Miller, an Atlanta native paying out-of-state tuition fees, said the illness has seriously affected her semester at USC. "I had to drop' one course, and I'll probably have to take an incomplete in chemistry," she said. Kathy's father, David Miller, owner and president of Mrs. Kinser's Foods in Atlanta, visited i his daughter while she was recovering. "My father doesn't get upset about things usually," Kathy said, "and he was very upset. He went downstairs to talk to the food service man about what had happened." MR. MILLER said when he talked to the Bates House food manager, "He didn't want to listen, but he did. I wasn't there to give him trouble, but I'm in the food business and sanitation is the same everywhere. He just has a clean-up problem," Miller said. 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