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319 guest workers hit by food poisoning at Moscow construction site

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MOSCOW, June 24 (RIA Novosti) - The number of foreign workers affected by food poisoning at the construction of a new terminal at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport has risen to 319 people, the local emergency service's spokesperson said Sunday.

A case of mass food poisoning hit Enka construction company's summer camp in the Moscow Region's Ruzsky district last week.

"At present, 319 people have been hospitalized, and only two of them have health insurance," the spokesperson said, adding that a total of 1,605 people resided in the camp at the time of the incident.

Olga Gavrilenko, head of Moscow Region's food safety watchdog, said all patients had been diagnosed with salmonella infection.

Anti-epidemic measures are currently being taken at the nearby Klin and Solnechnogorsk districts, to the northwest of the capital.

Russia's chief sanitary official, Gennady Onishchenko earlier said the majority of infected workers were nationals of Georgia, Uzbekistan and other CIS countries.

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