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Japanese government warns against eating raw meat
July 21, 1996
Web posted at: 1:00 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT)SAKAI, Japan (CNN) -- The Japanese government has issued a warning not to eat raw meat because of a food poisoning outbreak.
The Japanese Health Ministry says that four people have died and more than 8,000 have been stricken in the start of summer -- 6,000 in the town of Sakai alone.
The victims in Sakai are mostly primary school children, who ate contaminated school lunches. But other cases have been linked to a bacterium in raw liver. Officials are also concerned about eel, sushi, pork and chicken.
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