Nearly 3,500 teachers and students in more than a dozen public schools. (Representative)
TOKYO (Reuters):
Nearly 3,500 teachers and students from more than a dozen public schools in the city of Yashio in Japan fell ill with diarrhea and stomach pain during an epidemic of mass food poisoning.
Saitama prefecture said Thursday that 3,453 people in 15 primary and secondary schools in Yashio, a city of 92,000 north of Tokyo, were affected after eating a lunch provided by the TQC cooperative on June 26.
Out of a total of nearly 7,000 people examined, more than 2,000 primary school students and more than 1,100 middle school students suffered from food poisoning, said the prefecture, adding that it was investigating the origins of the epidemic.
Lunch included fried chicken, a tuna / potato platter and seaweed salad, as well as rice and miso soup, he said.
No one at TQC answered a phone call made by Reuters to request a comment.
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