300 Chinese villagers suffer from food poisoning after eating tainted food
April 25th, 2011 - 2:51 pm ICT by ANINew Delhi, Apr 25 (ANI): A total of 286 villagers were sent to hospitals for examinations and 91 were diagnosed with food poisoning in Changsha, capital of Central China’s Hunan province.
The victims suffered from food poisoning on Saturday after attending a wedding in Wufeng village, Lianhua town of Yuelu district.
The food poisoning is suspected to be the result of ingesting clenbuterol, a substance used to increase the amount of lean meat in pigs, a nurse with the emergency department at the No 3 Xiangya Hospital of Central South University told China Daily on Sunday.
Fifteen of the patients at the hospital were in critical conditions, including children and a pregnant woman, she said.
Other victims, though, were only suffering minor symptoms. Many of them had already left the hospital, the nurse said.
“Officials with the local center for disease control and prevention arrived last night, and I heard them say the mass poisoning might be related to clenbuterol,” she said. (ANI)
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