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3 deaths may be tied to community Thanksgiving dinner in Antioch 
  
 Three people have died and several others have been badly sickened from apparent food poisoning, and authorities were investigating Monday whether the outbreak was linked to a community Thanksgiving dinner in Antioch. 
  
 Officials at Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch released a statement Monday saying the hospital received eight patients Friday and Saturday with “probable food-borne symptoms.” 
  
 Three died and one remained hospitalized Monday, with the rest recovering enough to be released, the hospital said. Officials did not immediately identify the dead or say exactly when each of them had died, and they were investigating to find out if there were more victims. 
  
 The eight who got sick — all residents of the same living facility — ate Thanksgiving dinner at an event hosted Thursday by a local church at the American Legion Hall on Sixth Street in Antioch, said Marilyn Underwood, environmental health director for Contra Costa Health Services. 
  
 Photo: Google Street View American Legion Hall in Antioch. 
  
 By the next day, they were checking into the hospital with nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. 
  
 According to Sutter Delta officials, health department experts “do not believe there is any risk to the general public.” The Contra Costa County health department is investigating the illnesses, and whether there is a connection to the Thanksgiving dinner. 
  
 However, the eight who got sick also came from the same living facility, said Dr. Louise McNitt, deputy health officer for Contra Costa County. A number of other residents and staff members who attended the dinner did not become ill, McNitt said. 
  
 Officials declined to provide specifics about the living facility, or release the name. They also declined to provide any demographic information regarding the eight patients, and Contra Costa County coroner’s officials said they could not release the names of the deceased because their families had not been notified. 
  
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 But in the waiting room of Sutter Delta Medical Center on Monday night, Jim Carrillo, 69, said his 41-year-old son, Jim Carrillo Jr., became ill after attending the Thanksgiving dinner, but it is unclear if he is one of the original eight patients or if he is another attendee who fell ill. 
  
 Carrillo said his son, who is nonverbal and “very mentally handicapped,” is a resident of Rose’s Garden in Antioch, a group care home for adults. The facility’s administrator did not return calls for comment, and a reporter was turned away from the facility. 
  
 “I saw him that evening, and he doesn’t speak, but he signed that he was still hungry, so we stopped at Denny’s,” Carrillo said in the waiting room of Sutter Delta Medical Center. “Everything seemed fine until the next morning.” 
  
 That was when his son became “severely, violently sick,” and severely dehydrated, Carrillo said. When they took him to the doctor that day, his blood pressure was very low, and the doctors couldn’t get an IV in him. 
  
 The doctors told Carrillo that what saved his son was his relative youth and his strength, but even still, Carrillo said his kidneys weren’t working. On Monday, he was stable and in the intensive care unit, “but they can’t remove him because they haven’t determined his virus yet,” Carrillo said. 
  
 “I’m terrified,” he said. “Jimmy is my life. I’m all he’s got.” 
  
 At the event, which was open to the public, volunteers served 835 people a traditional Thanksgiving meal that was both donated and centrally prepared, Underwood said. She said volunteers prepared the mashed potatoes, green beans and stuffing on site, at a commercial-grade facility, and the food-safety techniques at the facility seemed up to standards. 
  
 The rest of the meal, including the turkey, was donated by other food facilities, restaurants, retail markets and volunteers. The event had been sponsored for a number of years, Underwood said. 
  
 Underwood said health officials have ruled out some bacteria, and they did not consider the sickness a food-borne disease outbreak yet. 
  
 McNitt said officials were looking into whether anybody got sick but did not go to a doctor. She said she believes the investigation will take up to 10 days. 
  
 While the incident was unusual, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 6 Americans — or 48 million — gets sick every year from food-borne illnesses, commonly referred to as food poisoning. 
  
 Roughly 128,000 people are hospitalized and 3,000 die annually, with norovirus and salmonella among the most common pathogens linked to illnesses. 
  
 Sarah Ravani and Vivian Ho are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. Email: sravani@sfchronicle.com, vho@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @SarRavani @VivianHo ||||| Three people have died and five were hospitalized after eating at a community Thanksgiving dinner in Northern California, officials said Monday. 
  
 The eight people who fell ill attended a dinner Thursday at an American Legion Hall in Antioch, said Marilyn Underwood, director of environmental health for Contra Costa County Health Services. 
  
 The eight people were described as elderly and all lived in the same residential facility, according to Dr. Louise McNitt, the director of infectious diseases for the county health department. 
  
 Health officials were trying to identify what caused the illnesses and said it was unclear whether the Thanksgiving meal or some other source led to the sicknesses. 
  
 “They could have gotten sick from the food they prepared at their living facility,” Underwood said. “At this point, we have no reason to conclude it was the food at the event.” 
  
 The eight people, none of whom were identified, were among about 835 people who attended the holiday meal at the American Legion Hall, officials said. 
  
 The event, hosted by Golden Hills Community Church, was open to members of the public and welcomed families, homeless people and residents of adult care facilities. The meal included traditional Thanksgiving fare such as turkey, mashed potatoes and green beans. 
  
 “They fed anybody that wanted to come,” Underwood said. “It’s all sort of folks that come to the event.” 
  
 On Friday, the Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch admitted eight people from the elder care facility. Their symptoms included nausea, diarrhea and vomiting. 
  
 A spokesman for the medical center confirmed to The Times that of those admitted, three died, four were treated and released, and one remained hospitalized on Monday. 
  
 Officials said the incident was not believed to be an outbreak of food-borne illness because the eight affected people identified thus far were associated with each other. 
  
 McNitt asked members of the public to come forward if they attended the Thanksgiving event and also felt sick. 
  
 “We’re interviewing people that we know are ill and also trying to find people that may have had some symptoms but did not seek any healthcare,” McNitt said. 
  
 Health officials were continuing to investigate and said there was not a threat to the general public. 
  
 “We’re saddened that this incident occurred during what should be a festive time,” McNitt said. “Our hearts go out to the families affected.” 
  
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Three people died and another five were hospitalized after a community Thanksgiving dinner in Antioch, Calif., but health authorities can't say for sure whether the meal is to blame. One other leading theory: All eight lived at the same nursing facility and might have consumed something there that made them ill, reports KTVU. As of Monday, all but one of the five hospitalized patients had been released. Those who fell ill were among more than 800 people who attended a dinner hosted by a local church at an American Legion hall in the San Francisco suburb. So far, no others appear to have fallen ill, and health authorities have not yet identified what sickened the eight, who began experiencing nausea the following day. Some of the food was prepared on site and some was donated. “They could have gotten sick from the food they prepared at their living facility,” says a health official with Contra Costa County, per the Los Angeles Times. “At this point, we have no reason to conclude it was the food at the event.” In fact, another charity dinner went on as scheduled Monday at the American Legion facility. The father of a 41-year-old mentally disabled man tells the San Francisco Chronicle that his son, who resides at a group home, remains hospitalized with kidney failure after eating the Thanksgiving meal. (Health authorities have disclosed no information about those who got ill, so it's not clear whether he's among the eight.) “I’m terrified,” he says. “Jimmy is my life. I’m all he’s got.”