Gambling can be dangerous to your health.

Health chiefs are investigating a possible food poisoning incident after 11 people fell ill at a racecourse.

Three people needed hospital treatment after visiting Hamilton Park racecourse in South Lanarkshire on Monday.

They have since been discharged and are recovering well, as are the other eight people, NHS Lanarkshire said.

Dr David Cromie, consultant in public health medicine at NHS Lanarkshire, said, "A number of people became ill yesterday whilst at Hamilton races. Our initial investigations would suggest this was linked to the food they ate. No organism has been positively identified, as yet.”

Patients about to go into surgery at Poole Hospital were left angry after being told to get dressed and go home because staff had fallen ill after a party.

One woman told the Daily Echo about her experience.

“We had all got into our nighties and dressing gowns when they told us our ops had been cancelled. They were making another date because all the doctors and anaesthetists went out for a party, had a good drink and some got food poisoning. Everyone was disgusted.”

The hospital’s director of nursing and patient safety Martin Smits confirmed a “number of staff” became unwell after an event in a non-clinical part of the hospital on Thursday, July 21.
 

French and Italian media are reporting that 46 young American students were
hospitalized in Salerno, south of Naples, for food poisoning after eating pasta and meat.

Young people and a teacher of 32 years, who had to travel in Greece, were hospitalized in various establishments in the vicinity of Salerno on Saturday night after complaining of fever, vomiting and diarrhea.

The group made a stop for lunch at a self-service Hydromania water park on the outskirts of Rome. They ate cold pasta and chicken thawed. But none of the 170 other guests had suffered the same problems as American students. 



A group of Nas, the carabinieri unit that specializes in food control, collected samples of the food consumed by the young Americans for laboratory analysis.
 

TMZ reports that songstress Jennifer Hudson was rushed to a New York hospital this morning after suffering from a bad case of food poisoning.

Hudson's rep said, "After performing on ‘Good Morning America’ earlier today, Jennifer Hudson went to the hospital due to severe abdominal pains. She was treated for food poisoning and released.”

Meanwhile, USA Today reports Selena Gomez looked just fine as she chatted with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show last night, but the singer was rushed to the hospital after the appearance, with symptoms that included nausea and a headache.

Appearing on gabfests can apparently be a health hazard.