Thirty-four students of a medical
and health school in the city of Yichang, central China’s Hubei
Province, were hospitalized for food poisoning on Saturday
evening.
The students were declared out of
danger as of Sunday.
Sources said that the students, all
boarders, began to show symptoms of food poisoning shortly after
having meals at the school dining hall.
The investigation into the cause of
the poisoning is still under way.
Also over the weekend, 35 employees
of the Harbin City Intermediate People’s Court fell ill after
eating underdone kidney beans on Saturday.
The patients were sent to a local
hospital in the Heilongjiang
provincial capital on Saturday evening, suffering from nausea and
vomiting. Preliminary diagnosis indicated that they were poisoned
by underdone kidney beans, according to sources with the
hospital.
The patients had all recovered by
Sunday.
(Xinhua News Agency October 10, 2004)