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Vietnam shuts bakery after 64 fall ill from suspected food poisoning

The Independent·Shahana Yasmin·about 1 month ago
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At least 64 people have been hospitalised with suspected food poisoning in Vietnam’s Quang Tri province, with authorities suspecting bread from a local bakery as the likely cause. The Huong Hoa Regional General Hospital said it admitted 18 patients on Friday in addition to the 46 the previous day, according to Lao Dong . One patient was discharged, leaving 63 people still receiving treatment at the facility. The patients started arriving at around 6.30am on Thursday, with symptoms like high fever , diarrhoea, vomiting, abdominal pain, fatigue, and dehydration, the news outlet Vietnam quoted the hospital chief Nguyen Viet Duc as saying. They were given intravenous fluids, oral rehydration and antibiotics, he said, and were now in stable condition. The hospital said that the patients were getting treated across its emergency, intensive care, poison control or toxicology units, as well as the infectious diseases department.…

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