16 children suffer food poisoning in NW China
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-10-27 13:58
URUMQI -- At least 16 children have been hospitalized with food poisoning
from lunch in a kindergarten in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous
Region, local education and health authorities confirmed on Friday.
Seven of the 16 children, including one in a serious condition, are receiving
treatment and the others are under medical observation at the Xinjiang
Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital.
The sick children showed symptoms of diarrhea, vomiting and dizziness after
eating a bean dish at lunch with 25 others on Wednesday in the No.3 Kindergarten
of Urumqi, according to a teacher surnamed Shang.
There might be more sick children, Shang said.
Local education and health authorities are investigating the
incident.
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