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Food poisoning hits 21 students in Xinjiang(Shanghai Daily)Updated: 2006-11-03 13:56 Twenty-one young students in a private school in western China fell ill and were hospitalized after eating in the school's cafeteria, Xinhua news agency reported today, in the latest in a series of such food poisoning cases. The students at the private school in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region complained of headaches, abdominal pain and vomiting after lunch on Wednesday, Xinhua quoted a local health official as saying.
There has been an outbreak of mass food poisonings in China since August, all but one in schools. At least 16 children, mostly between 2 and 5 years old, were hospitalized last week after eating at a kindergarten in Xinjiang, and earlier in October 56 children between 3 and 6 years old fell ill after eating at a nursery school in southern China's Jiangxi province. |
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