1,228 Japanese Children Ill; E. Coli Bacteria Suspected
Associated Press
TOKYO —
Contaminated school lunches may have sickened as many as 1,228 elementary school children in central Japan since Friday, a health official said Sunday. Ninety-three of the children have been hospitalized.
Officials suspect that children from 40 elementary schools in the city of Sakai were poisoned by E. coli--the same strain of bacteria suspected in hundreds of similar cases nationwide since May.
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