Investigation of a Food Poisoning Outbreak in a Private Hostel in Kanchipuram District, Tamilnadu

Damodharan, Jayashri; Rajendiran, Prashanth; Boominathan, Charumathi; Muthiah, Muthulakshmi; Parasuraman, Gomathy; Dutta, Ruma; Jain, Timsi

doi:10.37506/v11/i1/2020/ijphrd/193788

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“…This was less compared to a study in a girls hostel of a medical college in Punjab by Prajapati et al (8) where 70.1% of the girl students have experienced food poisoning related symptoms of food poisoning after taking a common dinner at hostel mess. Another food poisoning outbreak investigation among inmates of a private women's hostel by Damodharan et al (9) reported 65.8% attack rate after consuming a common meal which was more compared to us. The difference in observations might be because both these studies investigated common source (mess) food poisoning whereas we investigated food poisoning events of hostel dwellers with diverse food source.…”

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Epidemiological investigation of a food poisoning outbreak: a study among hostel dwelling students and resident doctors of a tertiary healthcare facility of India

Singh

Biswas

et al. 2021

Indian J Community Health

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Background: During second week of February, 2021 several cases of food poisoning were reported from hostels of a tertiary healthcare facility, thus this epidemiological investigation was undertaken, to confirm existence of a food poisoning outbreak, describe cases as per person, place, time and predominant food source, identify the attributes associated with the outbreak. Methods: To investigate the suspected food poisoning outbreak, an online unmatched case control study was conducted among 440 hostel dwelling students and resident doctors of a tertiary healthcare facility of eastern India during February, 2021. Results: The proportion of the study subjects who reported to have experienced food poisoning symptoms was 23.9%. Most of the food poisoning event reported to have occurred during 10th February, 2021 (26.6%). In the multivariable logistic regression model, predominant consumption of food from girls’ hostel mess [adjusted odds ratio (AOR): 7.83 (1.58-38.79)] and canteen 1 [AOR: 4.83 (1.13-20.69)] were found to be multivariable predictors of food poisoning events adjusted with age, gender, designation and residing hostel. Conclusion: One in every four study participants opined to have experienced food poisoning symptoms during the study period. This confirmed the existence of a multi-source food poisoning outbreak in the study population.

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confidence: 54%