56 Children Hospitalized After Mass Poisoning in School
A total of 56 children from 17 different schools are hospitalized after a mass poisoning by rats or mice.
According to health officials, the students ate vegetables that were contaminated with rodent urine and droppings.
The students, who range in age from 7 to 14, are suffering from high fever, rashes, swelling, redness, vomiting, and diarrhea.
“My stomach ached badly, and I could not eat and walk,” one of the students, 9-year-old Nikita, said.
A total of 91 students were infected. Dozens are in a “moderately grave” condition in infectious diseases hospitals, according to reports in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, where the mass poisoning took place.
Health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said the children had become infected with Yersiniosis after eating salad from their schools.
“This happens, for example, if their urine gets on cutting boards or the surfaces of tables where food is being prepared,” Dr Akinfiev said.
Children are still suffering from infections two weeks after the contamination.
“It is from the suppliers. Rodents, mice, ran over the fruits and vegetables and this is the cause of it,” one mother said.
Another mother said, “Schools failed to wash the vegetables properly, so the infection spread.”
The schools all employed the same food supplier.
A formal investigation by the regional state prosecutor’s office has been launched.
Where was the poisoning?
The poisoning was in Krasnoryarsk, Russia, not in the U.S. It was the result of rat or mice excrement infecting produce in the children’s salads. Either the produce was not washed thoroughly or the cutting boards for preparing the salad vegetables were not sanitized and contained mice or rat excrement, infecting the produce.
This is very disgusting no matter what country this happens!
And they thought they had to worry about COVID, what the heck is going on in our schools.?