Foodborne illness

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) on Thursday contradicted foreign press reports according to which hundreds of tourists suffered food poisoning at a hotel on Rhodes earlier this month, stating that the likeliest explanation for the sickness of a large number of guests and employees at the establishment in question was infectious gastroenteritis.

Three die of Listeria infection

SKOPJE -- Three persons died in Macedonia during the past month as a consequence of infection with the Listeria bacteria.

Seven cases in all have been registered in the Balkan country in the same period of time.

12 children have been hospitalized with food poisoning symptoms in the southwestern town of Razlog.

The director of the infectious diseases department of the local hospital informed that all children were in stable condition.

The children, aged 8-9, were on a trip to Bansko, according to reports of Darik radio.