Stomach illness outbreak at Yosemite prompts major clean-up

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Federal health officials are inspecting Yosemite National Park’s food service areas after at least a dozen people have fallen ill with stomach issues.

The National Park Service and the U.S. Public Health Service told the San Francisco Chronicle they launched an investigation after employees and visitors reported the problems this month.

Federal officials said they haven’t identified the illness or the origin of the outbreak. Park officials said those who had gotten sick are getting better or already recovered.

Federal officials were working with Aramark, the concessionaire that operates Yosemite’s restaurants, snack shops and hotels, to clean up and disinfect food service facilities in the park, including the famous Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite spokesman Scott Gediman said.



FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2015, file photo, people dine outside the Ahwahnee hotel in Yosemite National Park, Calif. Federal health officials are inspecting Yosemite National Park's food service areas after at least a dozen people have fallen ill with stomach issues. The National Park Service and the U.S. Public Health Service told the San Francisco Chronicle they launched an investigation after employees and visitors reported the problems in January 2020. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)


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ANTI-UNION ANTI-WORKER Aramark! Figures.

[CountAllVotes]

1. $500+ a night at the Ahwahnee

That is as good as it gets at Yosemite.

I've been there several times but only once had enough to eat in the hotel.

And to think, it is contaminated with something now and it is making the people that stay there sick?

Can't have a $500 a night tourist getting sick now can we?

Can they not do something being this is Federally controlled?

[Bayard]

9. Same here

We stayed at the hotel that has the river running under the balconies (much nicer in my book), but had dinner at the Ahwahnee one night. The food was not memorable, but the setting was great.

I can't imagine their food comes from some vendor like Aramark?

[htuttle]

2. That's an awesomely disgusting headline

[Sapient Donkey]

11. hehe I think I may have interpreted the headline the same way you did

That had to be intentional

[keithbvadu2]

3. Almost as filthy as Trump hotels and restaurants?

Almost as filthy as Trump hotels and restaurants?

[not fooled]

4. Letting corporations do their thing

in OUR national parks = cutting corners including food safety in order to maximize profits.

What's a few sick tourists against all the benefits of screwing workers and fattening quarterly returns?

[PSPS]

5. The NPS now has a trump toady as its head and its budget has been severely cut

[NBachers]

6. Oh shit- I'm taking Amtrak to Yosemite next Saturday, and was hoping for brunch at the Ahwahnee.

Hands-off government and bottom-feeding corporate skeezballs fuck up everything for everyone.

A national treasure, and the world population it serves, turned into a cesspool of disease.

What a disgrace

[WestLosAngelesGal]

7. I've been hiking to Yosemite and it was very clean, however...

...there was an outbreak of hantavirus when I was there some years ago, so instead of camping near where people had gotten sick, we drove to a motel in Mariposa. The great outdoors is full of rodents. Nice scenery, though!

edited to add:
https://www.outsideonline.com/1930876/death-yosemite-story-behind-last-summers-hantavirus-outbreak

[Liberalhammer]

8. Aramark

Isva terrible corporation. Most of their businesss is with prisions. I am not surprised.

[Farmer-Rick]

10. Capitalism at its best

When your mission is to make lots and lots of profit serving overpriced infested food and making many people ill is just a minor associated cost, like collateral damage

So was it tainted food or sick food service workers? One waiter with the virus can infect a lot of people.