Mai Van Muoi, director of the provincial Department of Health, said the total number of people hospitalized was 91 cases, including 34 foreign tourists.

After eating the fruit, all of the children showed signs of dizziness, headache, stomach ache and nausea.

More than 70 children aged from three to five from a preschool in the central province of Nghe An were rushed to hospitals after eating a snack on the evening of May 9.

Three seriously ill patients are requiring mechanical ventilation while one is in critical condition after eating pickled carp. Prior, one poisoned patient died, said Ho Chi Minh City-based Cho Ray Hospital yesterday.

ISchool Nha Trang reopened on Monday morning, a week after a mass food poisoning case left one student dead and hundreds of students and teachers hospitalised.

Initial results from Nha Trang’s Pasteur Institute of the sample from the food poisoning case in iSchool Nha Trang have found a bacteria belonging to the Salmonella group to be the main cause.

The Ministry of Education and Training has vowed to strictly deal with the food poisoning that has left one dead and hundreds of other hospitalised at a school in Nha Trang City.

According to the provincial health department report, about 800 students of Ischool Nha Trang suffered from food poisoning.

Nine more critical ill sailors were saved after being taken to hospital in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

One person died of suspected botulinum poisoning after eating vegetarian pâté in the southern province of Binh Duong last week.

At least 15 people across Vietnam have been hospitalised because of botulinum toxins since mid-July after eating Minh Chay vegan pate – a product made by the Hanoi-based Loi Song Moi Two members Ltd Company.

The National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has instructed departments of agriculture and rural development in provinces and cities

More than 100 workers were hospitalised due to food poisoning in Dong Nai Province.

The initial six months of the year saw 40 cases of food poisoning affect approximately 1,087 people, killing 15 individuals in the process, according to the General Statistics Office.

The Vietnam Food Administration said there were 48 instances of food poisoning this year by the end of May, in which 22 people died.

The People's Committee of Central Highlands Lam Dong Province has fined Hoang Vy Restaurant VND80 million (US$3,500) for its involvement in a food poisoning case that affected 136 local residents, the local authorities said on Tuesday.

More than 130 people, most of them children, who suffered food poisoning after a wedding in the central highlands province of Lam Dong have been released from hospital yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hospitals in Dak Lak Province were treating more than 120 people suffering from food poisoning, said Le Minh Thong, deputy director of the provincial Food Safety and Hygiene Department.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Song Ma District General Hospital in northern Son La Province received 191 patients suffering from food poisoning from late Monday to Tuesday evening.