Nearly 140 workers engaged in the construction activity at the Polavaram irrigation project site have complained of stomach ache and vomiting, allegedly due to food poisoning.
All of them are labourers belonging to the South and Central Indian States and are staying at a single camp on the project site.
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At least 115 students and staff at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic School in Livonia have been sickened by a suspected norovirus outbreak that has shut down the school.
“The first couple of kids were sick Monday. And then on Tuesday, we had in one class … about 10 or 12 kids who started throwing up over the course of four hours,” Kathy Nold, a co-principal at the K-8 school, told the Free Press on Friday.
The students’ parents were notified and picked up the sick children immediately, she said, and school leaders began discussing next steps.
“We closed school the following day and spoke to the Wayne County Health Department,” Nold said. The school will remain closed until Tuesday.
he Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (February 10) urged the public not to consume a kind of cheese imported from France due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, a pathogen. The trade should stop using or selling the product concerned immediately if they possess it.
Product details are as follows:
Product name: Gaperon cheese
Brand: MonS
Place of origin: France
Importer: FICO INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Pack size: 400 grams per pack
Batch number: 341
Best-before date: January 30, 2023
“The CFS received a notification from the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed of the European Commission that the above-mentioned batch of the product might have been contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes and is being recalled. A preliminary investigation found that the above-mentioned importer had imported into Hong Kong the affected batch of the product concerned,” a spokesman for the CFS said.
The importer concerned has stopped sales, has removed the affected product from shelves and has initiated a recall according to the CFS’s instructions. Enquiries about the recall can be made to the importer’s hotline at 2850 4799 during office hours.
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People have been vomiting due to water pollution in Murupara in the Bay of Plenty.
The council is urging people to boil all water after elevated levels of E. coli were found in the town’s drinking water supply.
However, the advice was too late for some, with Murupara Area School reporting that students and teachers have been affected.
Students are asked to bring boiled water with them.
“Please be aware we already have some students and teachers vomiting due to the water pollution,” the school wrote on Facebook.
“We are worried that this could spread throughout the school.”
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Do not consume, use, sell, serve, or distribute recalled products
The food recall warning issued on 2023-02-11 has been amended to correctly identify the affected products. The corrections for these products are marked by an asterisk (*).
The affected products are being recalled from the marketplace due to possible Listeria contamination.
The recalled products have been sold in Ontario, Quebec, online and may have been distributed in other provinces and territories.
Food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes may not look or smell spoiled but can still make you sick. Symptoms can include vomiting, nausea, persistent fever, muscle aches, severe headache and neck stiffness. Pregnant women, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems are particularly at risk. Although infected pregnant women may experience only mild, flu-like symptoms, the infection can lead to premature delivery, infection of the newborn or even stillbirth. In severe cases of illness, people may die.
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In a follow-up on the outbreak of Shigellosis associated with Tamarind Tree Restaurant in Seattle, Public Health – Seattle & King County now reports 32 people reported becoming ill after eating food at the restaurant in mid-January.
Ten of the 32 people who became ill tested positive for Shigella. Six cases have confirmatory testing indicating Shigella sonnei, a species of Shigella. Symptoms among those who did not get tested are suggestive of a Shigella infection.
At this time, no employees have tested positive for Shigella.
Investigators closed the restaurant during their visit on January 24, 2023. The restaurant was required to complete a thorough cleaning and disinfection. On February 7, Environmental Health investigators revisited the restaurant to confirm proper cleaning and disinfection, and the restaurant reopened that day.
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