Mass milk poisoning in Southern Russia

5 Sep, 2007 09:19 / Updated 17 years ago

At least 296 people, most of them children, have been affected by dysentery in the Stavropol Region of Russia.

Fifty-six people, 53 of them infants, are now in hospital in the city of Georgievsk. A criminal investigation into the case found low-quality milk products, or contaminated water, may have sparked the disease.