Salmonella behind BOSNIA poisoning scare - (BalkanInsight.com)
April 23, 2008 – 9:18 pmhttp://balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/9603/
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/04/articles/salmonella/bosnia-diner-linked-to-salmonella-outbreak/index.html
Salmonella has been identified as the cause of food poisoning that left 19 people hospitalized after eating at a popular Tuzla diner.
Results are still expected for the other 146 people who were over the past five days have been treated for stomach problems but allowed to return home, local media said.
All 165 people reported being sick after eating at a popular city diner in the northern town of Tuzla last Friday. Large number of patients overwhelmed hospital facilities.
Hospital officials said that condition of 19 hospitalized and 146 monitored cases is improving and none of them appeared to be in life-threatening situation.
Meanwhile city authorities ordered the closure of the diner and investigated its food and facilities.
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