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- news@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23653296
The event was a Los Angeles Times 101 Best Restaurants event, according to Santa Monica Seafood, a company involved in the situation.
According to the health department, over 80 attendees who ate the oysters at the event reported illnesses and gastrointestinal symptoms like diarrhea, nausea, abdominal pain, and vomiting.
Ironic though the headline seems, it’s not as though the restaurant can test for norovirus before serving, and the virus didn’t come from the restaurant in this case (usually, noro outbreaks are a restaurant’s fault due to employees not washing hands, but in this case, the oysters were already infected).