Horny Harry
15-09-2002, 16:18
China food poisoning outbreak kills 41, hundreds ill
A food poisoning outbreak at a fast food restaurant has killed 41 people and left hundreds needing hospital treatment in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing.
The official Xinhua news agency reports the 41 died after eating traditional breakfast snacks including sesame cakes and fried dough sticks at a branch of the Heshengyuan Soy Milk chain.
Doctors quoted by the agency said the death toll was expected to rise.
The web site later reverted to an earlier version of the story, saying only that "a number of victims" had died and more than 200 were poisoned.
There was no explanation for the change, but China's state controlled media frequently come under sharp controls on coverage of disasters and other stories deemed sensitive by the Government.
More than 400 people, many construction workers and middle school students, were rushed to hospitals after eating at the restaurant in the city's Jiangning district.
Doctors frantically transferred the ill from ambulances onto stretchers while others ran with boxes of medicine to hospital.
One local journalist who witnessed the medical effort said scores were already dead.
The restaurant has been shut down.
PLEASE DONT FEED THE ANIMALS
Zoo to review policy after man bitten by crocodile
Adelaide Zoo is reviewing its freshwater crocodile exhibit after a man was bitten by a one-and-half metre crocodile yesterday.
It is understood the visitor ignored the warning signs and leant into the pit, containing two adult Johnson crocodiles.
One of the reptiles lunged and bit him on the hand.
Acting zoo director Mark Craig says he spoke to the man in hospital yesterday just before he was due to undergo microsurgery on two badly lacerated fingers.
"It's the unpredictability of both the animal and the public to some extent, and sometimes these things happen," he said.
"Obviously when they do happen it's of concern to us, and we want to review and make sure this is not going to be repeated again, no matter whose fault it is."
[ September 15, 2002, 10:20 AM: Message edited by: Horny Harry ]
A food poisoning outbreak at a fast food restaurant has killed 41 people and left hundreds needing hospital treatment in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing.
The official Xinhua news agency reports the 41 died after eating traditional breakfast snacks including sesame cakes and fried dough sticks at a branch of the Heshengyuan Soy Milk chain.
Doctors quoted by the agency said the death toll was expected to rise.
The web site later reverted to an earlier version of the story, saying only that "a number of victims" had died and more than 200 were poisoned.
There was no explanation for the change, but China's state controlled media frequently come under sharp controls on coverage of disasters and other stories deemed sensitive by the Government.
More than 400 people, many construction workers and middle school students, were rushed to hospitals after eating at the restaurant in the city's Jiangning district.
Doctors frantically transferred the ill from ambulances onto stretchers while others ran with boxes of medicine to hospital.
One local journalist who witnessed the medical effort said scores were already dead.
The restaurant has been shut down.
PLEASE DONT FEED THE ANIMALS
Zoo to review policy after man bitten by crocodile
Adelaide Zoo is reviewing its freshwater crocodile exhibit after a man was bitten by a one-and-half metre crocodile yesterday.
It is understood the visitor ignored the warning signs and leant into the pit, containing two adult Johnson crocodiles.
One of the reptiles lunged and bit him on the hand.
Acting zoo director Mark Craig says he spoke to the man in hospital yesterday just before he was due to undergo microsurgery on two badly lacerated fingers.
"It's the unpredictability of both the animal and the public to some extent, and sometimes these things happen," he said.
"Obviously when they do happen it's of concern to us, and we want to review and make sure this is not going to be repeated again, no matter whose fault it is."
[ September 15, 2002, 10:20 AM: Message edited by: Horny Harry ]