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170 Suffer from Food Poisoning at Oslo Hotel

by Terri Potratz | September 30, 2008 at 04:07 pm

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More than 170 people have fallen ill and landed in hospital after staying at the Clarion Hotel Gardermoen in Oslo, Norway. Most were members of Norway's diabetes foundation, who were at the hotel to hold a conference and celebrate their 60th anniversary, and started to become ill on Saturday.

By Tuesday, however, more than 20 hotel employees and at least 10 other guests not tied to the diabetes group had reported getting sick. Even the band hired in to entertain at the foundation's anniversary got sick.
Officials initially suspected that something served at a lunch buffet set up for the diabetes group was the source of the food poisoning. Now they're not sure, given all the other cases of illness.

The hotel was shut down late Monday, initially for two days. It can take several more weeks, however, before authorities can determine the source of the illnesses.

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Christina 123

flagged this story as Good Stuff

at 07:08 on October 2nd, 2008

Terri Potratz, I like this story. It's good stuff. Could be a couple of weeks before we know the cause.

Ratrace (not verified)

at 08:50 on October 2nd, 2008

The latest on this is that it was not food poisining, but a more regular virus that can transmit from food or perosn to perosn. Just a regulat but violent flue attack