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Tuesday, Aug 03, 2004

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Ten students taken ill

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, AUG. 2. Ten students of the Hyderabad Public School, Ramanthapur, were reportedly taken ill on Monday triggering rumours of food poisoning. However, the school authorities scotched them, and to corroborate their claim, sent food samples to the Institute of Preventive Medicine here for tests. According to the school authorities, a class one student vomited on his classmate setting off a chain of similar reactions. As many as six students, from classes one to five of the primary section, were later reported to have complained of vomiting, while two from the main section also made similar complaint.

However, a children specialist was summoned to the school and the students were given medicines. The principal, R.K. Naini, ruling out the possibility of food contamination, said that any such instance would have had similar reactions from all students who took food from the school mess. "But these cases were reported from different classes, from classes one to five and two from the main section. We have our food and water tested and certified every month.

All the same, we have sent the samples for testing," he said, adding that it was not rare for two or three students to vomit in a school every day. Whenever there were more than three cases, a doctor was called.

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