Koraput: As many as 44 students of Kumbhariput boys hostel under Bandhugaon block fell ill due to food poisoning on Sunday evening. All of them were undergoing treatment at nearby hospitals.
According to reports, 44 students of the hostel complained of vomiting after having their dinner on Sunday evening, following which were rushed to Bandhugaon hospital for treatment. However, ten of them were shifted to the district headquarters hospital for better treatment.
Though the exact reason behind the vomiting of the students was yet to be ascertained, it is suspected that food poisoning might have caused this.
AHMEDABAD: 70 persons fell ill due to food poisoning at Pirana area near Narol on Sunday. Around 40 of them were shifted to VS hospital whereas around 30 were taken to Chepi Rog hospital in Behrampura.
Outbreaks of food- and water-borne diseases in the country are on the rise. Last year, there were 15 outbreaks of diseases related to food and water compared to 11 the previous year, according to a government study.
An increasing number of people are suffering and sometimes even dying from diseases like cholera, diarrhoea, anthrax and nipah encephalitis.
Rodent excrement, close proximity of domestic animals to people and lack of safe water are the main reasons behind the increase, said Mahmudur Rahman, director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).
He was presenting a trend of their ongoing surveillance report on food- and water-borne illnesses at the IEDCR auditorium in the capital yesterday.
FoodWorld 