22 diners at Causeway Bay restaurant suspected of food poisoning, 2 contract Norovirus
The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health is today (Jan. 16) investigating a food poisoning cluster affecting 22 persons.
The clusters involved five males and 17 females aged between 28 and 65, who developed abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and fever about 11 to 51 hours after having dinner at Kyukyoku Do at the Circle Tower in Tang Lung Street, Causeway Bay, on January 12.
Of those affected, 15 persons sought medical advice. None of them required hospitalization. The stool specimens of two of them were positive for Norovirus upon laboratory testing.
A preliminary investigation by the CHP revealed that the affected persons had consumed a variety of food items, epidemiological findings suggest raw oysters and crab salad are more likely to be involved. Staff of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) have conducted an investigation at the restaurant according to the established mechanism, the FEHD immediately instructed the premises concerned to immediately stop serving all incriminated food items, clean and disinfect the premises, and provide food safety and environmental hygiene education to the restaurant staff.
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