19 ill with food poisoning

June 10, 2013

The Centre for Health Protection is investigating a suspected ciguatoxin poisoning case affecting 19 people who ate a coral reef fish.
 
Fourteen men and five women, aged 23 to 71, fell ill after eating the fish at a Lamma Island restaurant on June 8.
 
Six sought medical treatment and one required hospitalisation.
 
All are stable.