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up right away hello my name is michael garrett small's i am the searcher area coordinator for prevention initiative i want to thank him r t r for inviting me out to the panel discussion one of the things that i rose really able to glean from the panel discussion was that we had multicultural groups from really from the country of africa coming together to discuss kids i saw it retrains in the group i saw it the opening group us all some somalis in the group we had a man from kenya and one of the things that we were discussing and getting understanding of is that we need to support our kids better we can no longer just send our kids to school we need to take our kids to school other cultures take their kids and we need to make sure we're taking our kids versus sending them to school one of the main things that i'm seeing with our young people is that they're getting to know the people in school more than they're getting to know parents at home as in parents will feed them and clothe them but our parents have to support the efforts of our young people make sure they get into the right college  the right stay the right area make sure the taking the right classes in high school and not just allow school systems to sign our kids up i think this panel discussion is really going to galvanize all of our groups coming together and working together on a common goal which is to be which is to put our differences aside and bring all of our kids together on the same page to make sure that our kids get the best out of life possible and we as adults are going to make sure we do everything we can to be pr and thank you some of you may remember us here from last year when we talked about an outbreak of salmonella that was linked to eating kids so unfortunately we're back here again this year because we're currently investigating another outbreak of salmonella so since april this year we've had a total of one hundred twenty six cases a salmon nella the majority of which are in king county of those there is close to twenty who are in the ethiopian community and this is why we're talking with you we're talking with you again today most of those cases and  county in general about two million people we do inspections and we do education to make sure that the number of food borne illness are many my eyes saw that's why when we so let me talk really quickly about salmonella some and i was a bacteria and it's one of many germs i can cause food poisoning someone knows usually found in raw me especially chicken poultry things like that but it can be found in any around me and it can also be found and produce so raw fruits and vegetables which is why it's very important to clean them you can also find it in pet chickens or pet lizards you can't see it you can't smell it if the food is contaminated with salmonella you can't tell from tasting it you can't tell from looking at it you can't tell from smelling it the other thing is that even if you've never gotten some unknown before it doesn't mean you're immune some people can get to eighty never have s and then you know eating the same types of food that they've always eaten incidence or for that matter any kind of money unless it could be equal i and other pathogens so we all know food is a social kind of thing people g when we do that we can enjoy that but we have to make sure the food we eat is safe how would that food be safe what can we do to make the food safe i would like to discuss  hundred sixty five degrees fahrenheit or higher and if it's beef one hundred forty five degrees or higher it has to cook so that the bacteria s would be killed m people immediately eat after cooking and the other one is to make sure that our food is cooked evenly out at our homes we have to make sure the food is cooked we can use you know to immediately after they prepare them they have to put them in the refrigerator they stay cold at forty one degrees or below and then they have to be not contaminated so that if th board to cut it the cutting board that we used to cut those meat should not be used to cut produce like onions so that there won't be contamination so eat foods that are uncooked they have to cook them and eat them if they decide to eat them wrong then they have to make sure that in restaurants we say they have to have consumer advisory so that people would know that eating raw food and has to be consumer advisory and in word are saying that if you eat raw food or kids you know small kids and older only people and people who are immunocompromised their immune system is not strong enough they get sick they get sick by eating the food that's mishandled the food etc so we won we want to advise the community to just conscious in this kind of situation so that we wouldn't have we continue to make sure that this kind of thing these cases will be will not be too much so that if they handle it properly and then them it will be minimised we won't have twenty just in one community and it's not just at restaurants it's even preparing at home so this time around we actually saw quite a few cases that didn't eat at restaurants they prepared at home and one person didn't even eat it she prepared it for her family and you know cross contamination happened in the kitchen and she still got sick and i think what you pointed out is is it's very important the people that are most at risk would be small children or people with immune systems that aren't completely strong so people like pregnant women elderly people people who are taking any sort of medication that might make their immune system less strong so it's most important for people with any of key is to make sure people do not get sick food is enjoyment people enjoying it in a party in graduation party in all karen business but they have to have a license a permit from the health department that we go and educate and make sure they have enough equipment so they can give this food to the public so i think hundred link food is delicious food is enjoyment but if it's mishandled pizzey yeah so so that's what we're trying to make sure that the purpose of this thing is to minimize time you get sick is between six and seventy two hours so a lot of times people think it's the last thing i ate that got me sick but not necessarily it could be something you ate a couple days ago so salmon l a so again six to seventy two hours after you eat contaminated food you potentially get diarrhea stomach cramps bloody diarrhea and then sometimes fever are no vomiting usually it resolves itself so if you stay hydrated it will go away by itself but some people it can become very very severe and it can you people are hospitalized it can get into your blood and it can cause it can cause big problems so it's very important if you have any sort of illness a few things to remember number one if you work in a job like that if you're a nurse or a doctor or you work with you would you need to not work while you're sick you need to wait at least twenty four hours so one day until all your symptoms are gone before you go back to work so you don't get somebody else sick the thing is that if you have an illness and it's not going away or you have something like fever or bloody diarrhea it's very important that you go see your doctor because they symptoms that we they could tell that or that is they're sick because of food for example salmonella with this outbreak what are the symptoms of salmonella we can we can mention those stays between twelve and seventy two hours so a person would know that the person got a food borne illness saw this are the symptoms that we know that one meeting for example vomiting no but