The Baltimore City Health Department and Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is continuing to investigate an outbreak of gastroenteritis at the Baltimore Convention Center during the Food Safety Summit on April 8-10, 2014.
The Department has heard from about 400 of approximately 1300 attendees, with more than 100 of reporting illnesses, mostly self-limited diarrhea. No associated hospitalizations or deaths reported.
After a first attendee survey was compromised by the online posting of the link and password, the Department has opened a new link for those who were unable to respond when the initial survey was closed. Maryland is working on evaluating possible exposures and doing testing at the Maryland state public health laboratory to attempt to identify an agent. At the conclusion of the investigation, a summary report will be available.
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