The Food Safety Department (Ministry of Health) has just issued an urgent document requesting the Dong Thap Department of Health to investigate and clarify the cause of the food poisoning incident involving Hong Ngoc bread, as the number of hospitalized cases has increased to 218 people.
The number of victims of food poisoning after eating bread in Quy Nhon has risen to 75, and authorities in Gia Lai have determined that there are no longer any food samples available for testing.
Thirty-nine people in Gia Lai were hospitalized for emergency treatment, suspected of having eaten bread purchased from a shop on Hung Vuong Street, Quy Nhon Dong Ward.
Sixty-two cases, including 56 students, required hospitalization after a school lunch at Kim Dong Primary School in Sa Dec, suspected to be due to food poisoning.
The number of suspected food poisoning cases following meals at Kim Dong Primary School in Sa Dec ward has risen to 62, including 56 students and 6 adults.
On the afternoon of May 20th, the People's Committee of Sa Dec ward, Dong Thap province, reported that 25 students and 2 family members of a teacher from Kim Dong Primary School were hospitalized suspected of food poisoning.
Many students at two boarding schools in Lai Chau were hospitalized with symptoms of numb tongue and vomiting after eating strange fruits picked from the wild.
The steamed duck egg and pork dish served in the school lunch program at Dang Thuy Tram Primary School was contaminated with Salmonella and E.coli, causing food poisoning in 112 people, 54 of whom were hospitalized.
The seemingly harmless white mushrooms growing in the forest can put many people in critical condition after just one meal, leading to liver failure, kidney failure, and coma.
Test results for Salmonella spp and Bacillus cereus bacteria in patient and food samples from the food poisoning incident that resulted in multiple hospitalizations.
Recently, many people have tended to cook rice only once a week, dividing it into containers for storage to use over several days in order to save cooking time.
Patients hospitalized with suspected food poisoning exhibited symptoms such as high fever and severe abdominal cramps, and shared a commonality: they had all eaten bread in Tan Lap commune (Quang Tri province).
The suspected food poisoning incident at Dang Thuy Tram Primary School has seen the number of hospitalized students rise to 46, and authorities are conducting tests to determine the cause.
The Ministry of Health has requested Ho Chi Minh City to urgently investigate the case of 25 suspected food poisoning incidents at Dang Thuy Tram School, trace the source, handle violations, and publicly disclose the results.
The Ho Chi Minh City Food Safety Department has determined that the incident involving multiple students being hospitalized after a school lunch at Binh Quoi Tay Primary School was food poisoning.
The Food Safety Administration has requested an urgent investigation into the case of over 20 people hospitalized suspected of food poisoning after eating bread, and also called for tracing the origin of the food.
PCR test results from the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit identified the causative agent in over 200 students as Salmonella enteritidis bacteria.
The owner of an unnamed bakery on Do Chieu Street, Vung Tau Ward (Ho Chi Minh City), who caused food poisoning in 108 people, has been fined 32 million VND and ordered to cease operations for 3 months.
Initial test results showed that, out of 10 stool samples taken, 7 tested positive for Salmonella bacteria, which may be the causative agent and source of infection.
Gia Dinh People's Hospital (Ho Chi Minh City) is currently treating 22 child patients suspected of food poisoning, all students from Binh Quoi Tay Primary School.
Doctors warn that hot weather causes bacteria in food to multiply rapidly if stored improperly, and people need to be cautious when choosing and consuming food.
The Ministry of Health has requested local authorities to tighten inspections of school cafeterias after discovering diseased pork being supplied to schools, increasing the risk of food poisoning and disease outbreaks.
Thanks to five vials of rare botulinum antitoxin, each costing approximately $8.000, donated urgently by the World Health Organization (WHO), three children in Da Nang who suffered botulinum poisoning have passed the critical stage.
Ten tourists were hospitalized after a dinner featuring eel in the southern coastal region of Vietnam, experiencing numbness throughout their bodies and a drop in blood pressure due to ciguatera poisoning.
Upon receiving the medicine provided by the WHO, Da Nang's health sector promptly began treating three children suspected of food poisoning from eating fermented fish.
The WHO is assisting in sending five vials of medicine from Switzerland to Vietnam to save three students suspected of food poisoning after eating fermented fish.