Friday, 24 March 2017

PRO/EDR> Foodborne illness - Egypt (04): schoolchildren

Foodborne Illness -- Egypt
An outbreak of food poisoning has sickened thousands of Egyptian schoolchildren in March 2017, figures showed [Thu 23 Mar 2017], sending parents rushing to hospitals and leading the Education Ministry to temporarily suspend its school lunch program.
Egypt saw 4650 suspected food poisoning cases in schools nationwide in March 2017 alone, the Cabinet said in a statement carried by state-run news agency MENA, compared to some 300 cases previously reported since the beginning of the academic

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2nR9z95

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