BANGKOK: 300 students rushed to hospitals because of foods poisoning - (The Nation Newspaper)
November 2, 2007 – 8:22 pmChiang Mai — About 300 students studying and living at a temple in this northern province were rushed to hospitals early Friday morning because of foods poisoning.
Doctors were cited as saying that about 40 of them were extremely sick.
Officials at the temple said the students became sick after eating khao mun kai (streamed rice with boiled chicken) in the evening.
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