A suspected outbreak of a rare and extremely dangerous food poisoning in Moscow left more than 120 people seeking medical help.
According to the World Health Organisation, food-borne botulism cases can be fatal without rapid treatment with antitoxins.A suspected outbreak of a rare and extremely dangerous food poisoning in Moscow left more than 120 people seeking medical help and at least 30 in intensive care, health officials said on Monday.
“In total 121 people sought medical help,” state news agencies quoted Anastasia Rakova, the deputy mayor of Moscow, as saying on Monday.“At the moment 55 people are in a serious condition, 30 of them in intensive care,” she added. And the Moscow prosecutor’s office said it had launched a criminal investigation into a breach of consumer safety standards.Deputy Mayor Rakova said there was “no threat to the lives” of those who had been hospitalised thanks to timely medical intervention.
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