Venetian, Sands in food poisoning scare
MACAU – A total of 141 people in Macau were food-poisoned after eating polluted raw oysters in local restaurants, the Special Administration Region’s health authorities said on Monday.
China’s Xinhua news agency said the food-poisoning outbreak was firstly reported on August 28 when a number of people fell sick after eating raw oysters served in a buffet restaurant in the Venetian Macao Resort, and more cases were later reported in restaurants in the Sands Hotel, Golden Dragon Hotel and the Macau Tower, according to the SAR’s Disease Control and Prevention Center of the Macao Health Bureau (SSM).
The SSM said in its latest press release that eight new cases were reported on Monday, the victims of which dined in the four restaurants mentioned above and ate raw oysters, but it also confirmed that those victims have fully recovered from the illness.
The problem oysters served in the four restaurants came from the same supplier in Hong Kong, according to the SSM, which has ordered the four eateries to stop providing raw oysters at their buffets.
Ian Jarrett
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