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Traditional ChineseSimplified ChineseText onlyPDARSS
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May 2, 2008
Food safety
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124 ill in food poisoning
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Centre for Health Protection

The Centre for Health Protection is investigating a suspected food poisoning involving 124 people who came down with gastroenteritis symptoms after having snack food at a school fair on April 26.

 

The affected include 53 males and 71 females aged between one and 56. Fifty-five of them sought medical treatment from outpatient clinics, 20 attended Accident & Emergency Departments. 

Twenty-two required hospitalisation, of which 12 have been discharged. All are in stable condition.

 

Laboratory tests revealed that Group D Salmonella were found in stool specimens of 11 affected persons.

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