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PRO/EDR> Foodborne illness – Egypt (02): (SJ) schoolchildren

Foodborne Illness -- EgyptMore than 3300 children were hospitalized in Egypt on [Tue 13 Mar 2017], after an outbreak of food poisoning at several state-run primary schools, state-owned news media said. The mass poisoning, in the impoverished Upper Egypt province of Sohag, north of Luxor, was one of the biggest food-safety cases to hit the country in years. Officials suspect that school lunches may have been contaminated, and they have opened an investigation. Samples from the lunches, consisting Read more [...]