From: eagle_wng
Apr 27 2005 6:42PM
Poisoning outbreak spreading in Kabardino-Balkaria
ROSTOV-ON-DON. April 27 (Interfax) – As many as 24 people, including six children, have been hospitalized in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria over the past 24 hours, as a mysterious poisoning outbreak continues to spread throughout the region, the press service of the Emergency Situations Ministry’s south regional center told Interfax on Wednesday.
“The patients are feeling satisfactory now,” the press service said.
As many as 109 people, including 23 children, are being treated in the republic’s Tersky district.
A total of 204 people have come to hospitals complaining of poisoning symptoms since April 15.
The cause of the poisoning outbreak has not yet been established.
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11276232
