Mass food poisoning strikes visiting high school students
Date Posted: 2002-03-14
The Prefectural Health and Hygiene Department announced that 37 students and a teacher from Nagoya High School in Aichi Prefecture who were visiting Okinawa had suffered vomiting and stomachache on the morning of March 5. Fifteen of those afflicted were hospitalized in Naha. Although all were released the following day, officials are investigating the incident as a case of mass food poisoning.