A Few Hours After a Dinner Party, Most of the People

question 54

Short Answer

A few hours after a dinner party, most of the people who attended begin to suffer nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. The food at the meal is suspected as the source, although no unusual microbes are cultured from samples of the food or from stool samples. These observations suggest they may be suffering from food (infection/intoxication).

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Definitions:

Expressive Aphasia

A language disorder caused by damage to the brain that affects a person's ability to produce coherent speech and language.

Prosopagnosia

A specific inability to recognize faces, even very familiar ones, with intact recognition of other objects.

Arbitrariness

The lack of any necessary or natural relationship between a sign's physical form and its meaning.

Discreteness

The characteristic of data or systems that have distinct, separate values or components.