Now, a new health alert tonight as a salmonella outbreak has been confirmed in central Kentucky.

More about that and tonight's medical news.

The Lexington Fayette County Health Department says there are at least ten confirmed cases of salmonella.

Four patients are in Fayette County.

Two are in Jessamine and Mercer counties, and one is in Fleming County, and one person lives in a different state.

All ten patients ate the same thing dessert from Ramsays Diner.

The exposure occurred between June 17th and the 20th.

Ramsays and Mrs. Pies, which makes desserts for Ramsay's, have since replaced all products that could possibly be contaminated with salmonella and are allowed to keep making pies that don't require eggs.

The health department says it's traced the eggs supply to Mrs. Pies to a particular farm, and that further testing is ongoing.

They also say this type of outbreak is rare.

I don't recall one this large being tied to, anything through a restaurant.

It mostly when we have a large scale foodborne illness outbreak, it's something more like a Noro virus, which resolves much more quickly than a salmonella infection.

You know, people rarely, get tested with those.

So it's a little harder to nail down what the cause of their illness was.

But certainly if you have, again, the person, place, time, exposure and numerous people becoming ill from having the same exposure, then, it certainly points to some type of infection.

And the last one that I recall was, at a food court and someone had come to work sick.

So, I mean, that's another angle that we're looking at, you know, was anybody sick?

You know, that's that's another common question that you ask me.

You think immediately about the ingredients.

But if somebody's sick, you know, then we have to look into that too.

And to my knowledge, we haven't found that to be the case.

Symptoms of salmonella include diarrhea, fever, abdominal cramps, and vomiting.

If you ate at Ramsay's or Mrs. Pies from June 17th to the 20th and developed any of those symptoms, the Health Department encourages you to reach out to them.