CAMP SPRINGS — Tristate residents who attended a church festival here may be at risk for salmonella if they still have homemade ice cream from the event.

        Northern Kentucky health officials say there has been one confirmed case of salmonella in a 4-year-old Campbell County boy who attended the Aug. 17 festival of the Oakland United Methodist Church in Camp Springs.

        He ate homemade ice cream sold at the festival.

        About 200 to 300 people, mostly from Campbell and Pendleton County churches, attended the event.

        “(Organizers) feel they probably contacted all the people who were there,” said Peggy Patterson, spokeswoman for the Northern Kentucky Independent District Health Department.

        Health officials also suspect six or seven other possible cases of salmonella in children who attended the church festival, Ms. Patterson said.

        The health department has taken nine quarts of ice cream to a state health lab in Frankfort for testing. In about a week, they expect to determine whether salmonella was present in both flavors of ice cream sold at the festival, and, if so, identify the type of salmonella.

        “The children who became ill ate both chocolate and vanilla, so we don't know which flavor was contaminated,” said Becky Acuff, a nurse at the Northern Kentucky Independent District Health Department.

        “If anyone has either flavor, they should discard it. If anyone develops symptoms, they should contact their physician.”

        The ice cream at the Camp Springs church festival was made with raw eggs, which is believed to be the source of contamination, Ms. Acuff said.

        Salmonella is a group of bacteria that can cause diarrhea, nausea, abdominal pain and fever, said Gary Crum, health director of the Northern Kentucky Independent District Health Department. Young children, the elderly and those whose immune systems are compromised are the most likely to develop severe infections.

        Although symptoms generally develop 12 to 72 hours after infection, salmonella has an incubation period of 10 days, so anyone who has eaten ice cream purchased from the festival within the last 10 days should be aware symptoms could develop , Ms. Patterson said.

        The illness usually lasts four to seven days, and most people recover without treatment, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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