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Over 30 people suffer food poisoning in Russia's Far East town

Xinhua, July 11, 2016 Adjust font size:

Thirty four people, mostly children, have been hospitalized for food poisoning over the past few days in a town in southern Primorsky in Russia's Far East, the Russian news agency TASS reported Monday.

"Most of them are children," senior assistant prosecutor of the Primorsky region Elena Telegina said, adding that eight out of the children suffered from infectious diarrhea.

The condition of those hit by food poisoning in the town of Bolshoy Kamen was mostly diagnosed as moderate.

The local kindergarten involved is closed for quarantine and undergoing sanitary and epidemiological checks with lab tests and control measures in place. Endi