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- Posted at 9:41 p.m. PDT Monday, July 28, 1997
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- Salmonella outbreak kills six in Mexico
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- MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Six people died and dozens
- more were seriously ill from a salmonella outbreak
- blamed on bad chicken in a small town in central
- Mexico, a television report said Monday.
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- Two of the six dead were children and 54 people
- were ill, the Televisa network's ``24 Hours'' news
- program said.
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- Health officials quarantined the town of San Pablo
- Zoquitlan in central Puebla state just east of
- Mexico City, the government news agency Notimex
- said. Notimex reported 97 people sick.
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- Televisa showed video of dozens of sick people
- crammed into one small room with only four beds.
- Most of the sick appeared to be children or
- elderly.
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- A special brigade of 38 health workers was
- dispatched to a neighboring town in Puebla state to
- deal with the outbreak, Notimex reported.
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- Notimex said authorities attributed the salmonella
- to chicken that was not properly cooked or a
- popular chicken dish that likely was prepared with
- water that had not been properly boiled.
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- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 01:23:57 -0400
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