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By Gordon Hirsch
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After spending more than a week
in Richland Memorial Hospital
with salmonella, a bacterial infection
contracted from spoiled
food or dirty eating utensils, Kathy
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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
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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."
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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.
Tony Wells, assistant food
manager at Bates, said the
cafeteria maintains strict health
regulations Th?* maUr
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in the dishwashers is kept
between 140 and 180 degrees at all
times and is hot enough to sterilize
dishes and utensils before all
meals. Wells said the campus lab
checks the dishwashers twice a
month and that a state health inspector
checks them once a month.
"If there is any kind of health
problem they'll crack down on us
quick, but there hasn't been
anything like that," Wells said.
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