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About 200 CHIJ (Toa Payoh) high school students exhibited symptoms of food poisoning, including diarrhea and abdominal pain, last week.
The source of the contamination remains to be determined, according to the Ministry of Health MOH), which was notified by the school last Thursday, when students began to show symptoms.
Most of the students who became ill went back to school and none was hospitalized, said school principal Ms. Karen Tay "The school monitors the situation and works with the relevant government agencies to determine the cause of the symptoms. "
"As a precaution, the affected students' classrooms and school toilets were cleaned and disinfected," Tay said.
In a letter distributed to parents on Friday, obtained by the Sunday Times, the school also said that food sources in the school were monitored as a precaution.
The parents contacted expressed their support for the school.
"I appreciate what the school is doing … they have done a lot of effort for the students," said one parent who asked not to be named . fell with diarrhea in the early hours of Thursday and the symptoms continued the next day.
Investigations are underway to determine the source of the infection, said MOH
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