Across China: Inner Mongolia

Suspected food poisoning

More than 110 students and teachers at a kindergarten in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have fallen ill in a suspected food poisoning case, local hospital sources said Monday.

The victims in Elfin Kindergarten in Baotou City started to show symptoms of fever and vomiting on Sept. 24. Some 76 of them, who had been hospitalized since then, were diagnosed with contagious dysenteric viruses.