JORDAN: Food poisoning scare hits - (Jordan Times/Independent Online)
October 27, 2007 – 6:02 pmAmman — Yousef Qoqaji, head of Jerash public hospital, was cited as saying Saturday that more than 200 people were treated for food poisoning in Jordan after eating hummus - ground chickpeas - from a restaurant in Jerash south of the capital, adding, “Salmonella was probably the cause of the poisoning of 206 people who were taken to hospital on Friday, but investigations are still under way.”
By Saturday evening, an official toll estimated the number of people suffering from the symptoms at around 300, all from Sakeb village in the northern Jerash Governorate.
However, some village residents said they believed the number to be much higher. Others also said they suspected contaminated water was the reason for the outbreak, not hummos sold at a nearby restaurant as first believed by the authorities.
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