Seminar Participants Hit By Food Poisoning
By Ben Ng

Bandar Seri Begawan - Seven people were admitted to the RIPAS emergency ward yesterday where they were diagnosed with food poisoning in what appears to be the result of bad nasi ayam that was served to participants attending a UBD seminar.

The seminar held at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD), dubbed the Information Week For Electronic Resources, was organised by the Ministry of Education. Teachers and librarians from around the nation were invited for the seminar.

"They were serving food there, like nasi ayam which tasted quite good actually," said a teacher who was diagnosed with food poisoning yesterday at the emergency ward.

He said participants who did not eat the nasi ayam were "okay" and were not afflicted by any of the symptoms.

"I think it could have been the nasi ayam, as everyone whom I know that were affected as well, ate the nasi ayam," he said.

"About two hours after eating it, I started feeling dizzy and had a stomach ache. I started vomiting a lot and so my wife brought me to the emergency ward. It was here I met some other patients with food poisoning who also attended the seminar," said the teacher.

A doctor said that the symptoms the patients showed were "indicative of food poisoning" and that they are still investigating the cause.

"Vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhoea are all symptoms of food poisoning. We are still investigating so we can't really point the source or how many people are involved," said the doctor.

"We have taken samples for testing and so far we know of seven people from the seminar who were infected," he said. Some 300 people attended the seminar. "We're on the lookout for more cases.

"We gave them some medication to stop the diarrhoea and vomiting, and we are making sure they are well-hydrated," he said.  -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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