UPDATE: Chicken not source of salmonella at Broughton
The manager of the nursing home, Broughton Hall, in Melbourne, Australia, claims that the three-day-old chicken meal was not to blame for the recent outbreak of gastroenteritis.
The outbreak resulted in the deaths of 5 people and placing of 5 others in hospital. Tests linked the outbreak to a salmonella infection.
However, Sharon McGowan, executive manager of Benetas, which manages the nursing home in suburban Camberwell, stressed that the cause of the outbreak is still being investigated.
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