Vibrio outbreak linked to Hong Kong restaurant sickens 75

The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Hong Kong Department of Health has received reports of 11 more people in food poisoning cases related to a restaurant in Jordan.

As with the earlier clusters, they ate food from the restaurant on or before June 27.

Stool specimens from six affected people in earlier clusters yielded positive result for Vibrio parahaemolyticus.

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