Thursday, 16 March 2017

PRO/EDR> Foodborne illness - Egypt (02): (SJ) schoolchildren

Foodborne Illness -- Egypt
More than 3300 children were hospitalized in Egypt on [Tue 13 Mar 2017], after an outbreak of food poisoning at several state-run primary schools, state-owned news media said. The mass poisoning, in the impoverished Upper Egypt province of Sohag, north of Luxor, was one of the biggest food-safety cases to hit the country in years. Officials suspect that school lunches may have been contaminated, and they have opened an investigation. Samples from the lunches, consisting of processed cheese

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