Gert van der Hoek
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Montenegro is in the former Yugoslavia region.
Poisoning Scare in Montenegro
26 August 2008 Podgorica _ Some 700 children and 130 adults have been taken ill in the Montenegrin capital amid a food poisoning scare.
The Montenegrin Institute for Public Health announced that the number of people registered with stomach problems during the weekend and on August 25 exceeded 800.
The Department for Infectious Diseases of the Montenegrin Clinical Centre was reported to have hospitalised 15 persons, and the Institute for Childhood Illnesses, 17 children with stomach problems over the past two days.
According to them, patients are suffering from vomiting, diarrhea and an increased temperature, so it is supposed that the cause of the infection is "most probably" a virus.
However, the Institute stated that they are investigating the cause and the source of the infection.
The public company Water Management previously announced that the water from sources which supply Podgorica "is completely safe to drink" and that "samples for analysis were taken from several places."
http://balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/12644/?tpl=299&ST1=Text&ST_T1=Article&ST_AS1=1&ST_max=1
Poisoning Scare in Montenegro
26 August 2008 Podgorica _ Some 700 children and 130 adults have been taken ill in the Montenegrin capital amid a food poisoning scare.
The Montenegrin Institute for Public Health announced that the number of people registered with stomach problems during the weekend and on August 25 exceeded 800.
The Department for Infectious Diseases of the Montenegrin Clinical Centre was reported to have hospitalised 15 persons, and the Institute for Childhood Illnesses, 17 children with stomach problems over the past two days.
According to them, patients are suffering from vomiting, diarrhea and an increased temperature, so it is supposed that the cause of the infection is "most probably" a virus.
However, the Institute stated that they are investigating the cause and the source of the infection.
The public company Water Management previously announced that the water from sources which supply Podgorica "is completely safe to drink" and that "samples for analysis were taken from several places."
http://balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/12644/?tpl=299&ST1=Text&ST_T1=Article&ST_AS1=1&ST_max=1