Forty-six middle-school students believed to have been poisoned by
food, were sent to hospital at Liantang, a town near Nanchang,
capital of east China's Jiangxi Province.
At
around 8:30 p.m. Monday, the first student, who attended the
Nanchang No.2 Teachers' School, got a fever and vomited, and
another student became ill at 9 p.m.
By
Tuesday morning, 46 students were reported to be sick with similar
symptoms. Doctors in the county hospital, where the students were
receiving blood tests and treatment, said that it was a typical
food poisoning case.
A
special investigation group of experts and officials from the
municipal government of Nanchang and the provincial government are
investigating the case.
(Xinhua)