In the city of Volnyansk, Zaporozhye region, there was a mass poisoning in a kindergarten.

Among the victims, nine inmates from three groups of the institution, according to the State Consumer Service in the Zaporozhye region.

The parents of the children began to seek medical help at the local hospital from September 19 to September 22 inclusive.. In almost all children, doctors recorded an increase in temperature, nausea and diarrhea..

Doctors confirmed the diagnosis of acute intestinal infection, but they did not detect the rotavirus antigen.

Four children were admitted to the Volnyansk multidisciplinary hospital, but now all the children are being treated at home. Their state of health is assessed as satisfactory..

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On the fact of mass poisoning, a sanitary and epidemiological investigation and an unscheduled event to check the food unit for food safety have begun.

Earlier it was reported that the educational institutions of Ukraine will again conduct sudden checks to examine workers for Staphylococcus aureus, said the Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko. The corresponding decision was made due to the poisoning of almost 100 schoolchildren in Khmelnytsky.

We will remind, from 8 to 10 September, Khmelnitsky medical institutions discovered symptoms of poisoning in 92 primary school students and one student's mother. Later, the Khmelnytsky Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention published the results of an epidemiological study, according to which Staphylococcus aureus became the cause of the poisoning.

Militiamen reported that 39 parents contacted the police due to poisoning of children. According to the National Police, information about the first four cases of hospitalization of children was received on September 7.