I got food poisoning after eating at Boma but when I asked Disney if anyone else had gotten sick the night before they didn't believe that I'd had food poisoning and told me that it probably was "something that was going around". It didn't upset me since I figure the last thing they want to admit to is poisoning you and I would eat at Boma again in a heartbeat. I might skip the pasta salad and coleslaw the next time though. The truth is that you can get food poisoning anyhere including Disney.
Mo
Well, if you were the only person at BOMA that got sick, then it wasn't likely to be food poisioning. Once food has spoiled to the point of making people sick, believe me, in a restaurant that serves as many people in a night as Disneys do, you'd have heard about it. It's possible that you and others who have suspected food poisioning when no one else got ill had a "virus" (and virus is simply a generic term for a micoscopic contagion) .....everyone thinks that if you get a virus you're horribly ill for days and days, but the fact is that you can actually be sick for only a few hours from a virus....or it can be life threatening and everything in between also. It depends on so many factors how bad a virus can affect you......the strength of the virus itself, your own immune system....your stress level and other health at that exact moment in time, all come into play when seeing how a virus will affect you. Have you ever had someone in your house get really sick, fever, aches pains, vomiting etc......and somehow no one else in the house gets it....or worse, everyone does. It's all those factors...the germ may have been strong when it hit that person and weakened by the time it got around.....or the ill person may have been tired or stressed and everyone else in the house a little less stressed, that can play a part...or maybe their immune system wasn't up to par for THIS germ...but yours was. See what I mean.
Think of it terms of computers since the computer industry purposely called things that can make your computer sick a "virus". Some computer viri (plural of virus) may actually destroy your computer......but most are just a little annoyance or inconvenience, sometimes damaging a little....sometimes you can actually have a virus in your computer and nothing will happen. People aren't much different from that.
And yes, there are cases where the food could be spoiled and not everyone gets ill.....some die from food poision, some simply wish they would
but because food spoils so quickly when it starts to go (there is no "half spoiled") that it's more likely that even healthy people will become ill, and unhealthy/stressed/tired people will be violently so.
If you really and truly feel that you have food poisioning from ANYWHERE, then you really should report it to the the local health department. If a restaurant, even a beloved Disney one, is serving food that is making people ill, then it is vitally important that it be corrected. If the restaurant won't acknowledge a problem, believe me, the health department and CDC won't brush you off nearly as quickly (and local health departments must report multiple complaints to the CDC who watches these like a hawk especially lately). They may not be able to send someone out to inspect that night, so THAT particular incident may never be proven, but the health department keeps track of complaints and those all go into account when they schedule surprise inspections, and when they do a little more thorough scheduled inspection. So reporting it may not solve your tummy problems, but it might save someone else from the same or worse discomfort.
Uggh. My moms office closed down early friday because the doctor had it. I'm in georgia, just wondering how far this thing reaches.
Most counties are asking pupils to stay at home for 48 hours AFTER the symptoms have gone in an attempt to avoid the spread.
