This started happening immediately. Can anyone provide information if any food borne illnesses create symptoms so soo after ingeston?
“The woman arrived around 6:30 and because of our Egyptian spirit, we accept gifts and people started eating immediately,” Mohamed al-Mahalawy, a participant in the sit-in told Bikyamasr.com.
He showed a meatloaf leftover from the meal. Poor looking and wrapped in aluminum foil, but nothing apparently dangerous about the food.
“People started vomiting immediately and getting very strange symptoms. They were shaking like they were having a strong seizure,” he said.
From Twitter unconfirmed.
According to a dr in the field hospital; the number of poisoned people exceeds a hundred. #OccupyCabinet
At least 30 protesterswho have been camped outside the cabinet's headquarters in Cairo for weeks were rushed to hospital on Wednesday suffering from food poisoning, Egyptian state television reported.
The demonstrators, who began their sit-in on November 25 during wider protests against the ruling military, were taken to hospital in a fleet of 14 ambulances, the official MENA news agency reported.
The demonstrators, who began their sit-in on Nov. 25 during wider protests against the ruling military, were taken to hospital in a fleet of 14 ambulances, the official MENA news agency reported.
Correction:
Sources from inside the sit-in told Bikyamasr.com that a 19-year-old young man had died in the Qasr el-Aini hospital after eating the food. Later in the evening, reports surfaced that the man had not died, but instead passed out due to excessive vomiting of blood.
Twtter reports say that one protester has died.
TheBigPharaoh The Big Pharaoh
Oh my God. A 19 yr protester died from the poisonous food that was distributed to sit-in protesters at #occupycabinet.
More from the same twitter account:
Mohamed Hassan Ibrahim, 19, died from food poisoning as a result of eating highly poisonous food distributed by an unknown in #occupycabinet
I will dig further and update.
According to eyewitnesses, a veiled woman in her 40s wearing “a pair of jeans and a coat,” got out of a car at the Cabinet headquarters and distributed the sandwiches to demonstrators.
Shortly afterwards, dozens of protesters began to vomit and faint as a possible result of food poisoning. Twelve ambulances eventually arrived at the scene and rushed them to hospital.
The incident has prompted speculation that the sandwiches had been deliberately contaminated with the intention of inflicting protesters with food poisoning and thus forcing their departure from the area.
Other demonstrators reported the incident to police, calling for the arrest of the unidentified woman and a full-scale investigation into what happened.
“Protesters kept throwing up and fainting – one every two minutes,” activist Sayed El-Salamoni told Reuters.
Does shortly mean more than 2 hours?
Symptoms
When you develop symptoms depends on the exact cause of the food poisoning. The most common types of food poisoning generally cause symptoms within 2 - 6 hours of eating the food.
Possible symptoms include:
Abdominal cramps
Diarrhea (may be bloody)
Fever and chills
Headache
Nausea and vomiting
Weakness (may be serious and lead to respiratory arrest, as in the case of botulism)