Ten tourists from China, eight from S. Korea hospitalized in Moscow with food poisoning symptoms - source
MOSCOW. Aug 17 (Interfax) - A massive poisoning of tourists from China and South Korea has occurred in eastern Moscow, 18 people have been hospitalized, a source in the Moscow healthcare system told Interfax.
The source said ten tourists from South Korea, aged from 19 to 64, were admitted to an infectious disease hospital in Moscow with food poisoning on Sunday morning.
Several hours later, another eight people with food poisoning symptoms, tourists from China aged from 13 to 65, were hospitalized in the same hospital from the same hotel, the source said.
The doctors decided to treat a 13-year-old girl as an outpatient. The other people remain in hospital in a stable condition. The cause of the poisoning is being determined and the sanitary services are studying the public catering conditions in the hotel on the Izmailovskoye Shosse, where the tourists lived.