Asher Fusco of the Daily Kansan reports that when Ross Randall took his team out for dinner the night before the Big 12 Championship, he didn’t expect it to cost him the majority of his starting lineup.
Four of the five Jayhawk golfers slated to compete for the Big 12 crown in Tulsa, Okla., came down with food poisoning after Sunday night’s team dinner, leaving some doubt about whether the team would be able to play.
“I really didn’t think we could finish the tournament, but our guys hung in there,” Randall, Kansas coach, said.Continue Reading Food poisoning slows men’s golf team

Sarah Barry of DailyProgress.com (Virgina) reports that more than 40 members and guests of Farmington Country Club came down with upset stomachs on Easter, creating a mystery officials are still trying to solve.
As of Wednesday, the Charlottesville-Albemarle Health Department had not been able to identify the cause of the illnesses, said Roy Crewz, spokesman for the Thomas Jefferson Health District. “All of our information right now is very preliminary,” he said.
Two days after the club held an Easter brunch buffet, it began receiving phone calls from members and guests complaining of symptoms consistent with food poisoning.Continue Reading Country club struck by odd illness

A total of eleven infants aged less than two years old were taken to hospital in Vladivostok Saturday after being diagnosed with food poisoning.
Spokespeople for the Emergency Situations Ministry’s department in the Primorsky Territory said all the infants received foods from the same baby-food distribution center.
Doctors let parents pick up two infants from

Columbian staff writer Tom Vogt reports that about 20 people have become sick in the past few days at a Vancouver retirement center, including eight who were transported to the hospital Monday and Tuesday.
Symptoms include vomiting, nausea and diarrhea. Clark County health officials said Tuesday they still are investigating the cause of the outbreak at the Cascade Inn, 11613 S.E. Seventh St.Continue Reading Illness strikes senior center

Eyewitness News 12 – WPRI (RI) reports that the state health department is investigating an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness.
The health department says a number of people became sick after attending a Father and Daughter dance at the Bocce Club in Woonsocket on Friday. The Cumberland Hill Elementary School sponsored the dance.
The health department

Seven people died today and 18 others took ill in two incidents of food poisoning in Uttar Pradesh.
A report from Balrampur district said four children died this morning and 16 others took ill after consuming contaminated mutton in village Mohammadnagar Grant under Rehra area last night.
The deceased were identified as Neetu (8), Kiran

A celebration turned into tragedy at a slum in Borivli late on Monday when several hutment dwellers consumed meals after a religious function and fell ill. Nine of the victims were later rushed to Borivli’s Bhagwati Hospital with symptoms of food poisoning.
The slum dwellers living along IC Colony in Ganpathpatil Nagar had come together to celebrate a ‘Satyanarayan Puja’, which was followed by a ‘prasad’ of puri-bhaji and sweet boondi for nearly 300 residents.
But around midnight children began complaining of nausea, which was followed by bouts of vomiting and loose motions. “When we headed home after the function was over, Deepak started vomiting continuously,” said Mundrika Jha, the mother of the five-year-old. He was admitted to Bhagwati Hospital’s general ward and put on a glucose drip.Continue Reading Food poisoning in Borivli


The Windsor Star reports that the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, Ontario, is, according to this story, investigating after employees of a Lakeshore factory became severely ill after eating food brought into the plant from a Tecumseh restaurant.
So far, 44 people became sick after eating the food on Sept. 30, medical officer of health Dr.

Fifteen people aged 14 to 40 have come down with food poisoning after eating at a Kwun Tong restaurant September 15 to 19.
The nine men and six women suffered diarrhoea, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting three to 15 hours after eating there. None required hospitalization and all are stable.
The Centre for Health Protection