PRO/EDR> Foodborne illness – Jordan (02): (BA) shawarma, fatal, poss. campylobacteriosis

Foodborne Illness — Jordan
The Jordanian Ministry of Health announced on Friday [31 Jul 2020] the death of a man in his 40s, 2 days after the death of a child, as more than 800 people have suffered from foodborne illness from eating contaminated shawarma meals from a restaurant in the Al-Baqa’a area, northwest of Amman.
The official TV in Jordan quoted the Minister of Health, Saad Jaber, as announcing the ministry’s registration of a 2nd death from the mass poisoning incident in Al-Baqa’a. He pointed out that the