Patients newly recognized as victims of a 1968 mass food poisoning across western Japan filed a damages suit Friday against the manufacturer of contaminated cooking oil, Kanemi Soko KK, demanding that the company and its two officials pay 286 million yen. The suit, filed by 26 plaintiffs with the Kokura Branch of the Fukuoka District Court, was the first collective lawsuit since a legal struggle to seek compensation concluded in 1987.
Chinese President Hu Jintao called for bolstered trust and cooperation with Japan as he arrived in the country Tuesday for the first visit by a Chinese head of state in a decade. Hu, who arrived on a special Air China flight, is scheduled to hold summit talks with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on Wednesday, after a meeting with Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko earlier that day.
The incidence of waterborne diseases is on the rise in the state. In all, 917 cases of acute diarrhoea were reported from the city in the last four months, of which 80 were detected in the last one week. In this context, the task force of the health department held a meeting and decided to take steps to prevent contamination of water and food. In Anantapur district, 98 cases of acute diarrhoea were reported in the past one week. Waterborne diseases were also reported from Putlur of the same district.
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At least 17 persons, most of them children and women, have died in three Upper Assam districts of Golaghat, Jorhat and Sibsagar after having consumed wild poisonous mushrooms in the past four days. The state Government has now warned people not to consume unidentified mushrooms. While 10 persons have died in Golaghat, five have fallen victims in Sibsagar and two others in Jorhat. Seven of those who have died are children. At least 20 others are battling for life in different hospitals.
It was just another day at work for the employees of Om Innovation Call Service (OICS) in Janakpuri. At 2 pm, over 100 employees went for lunch at the company cafeteria as usual. Instead of returning to their workstations, however, they had to be rushed DDU Hospital with complaints of nausea and stomach ache. Police officials said 60-odd employees were downed by food poisoning, though hospital authorities put the number at 107.
