The food poisoning which last week felled 700 youngsters in Jerusalem schools was blamed today on a cocoa drink prepared in the central kitchen serving the public schools of the area. Researchers for the Health Ministry isolated microorganisms which had apparently gotten into the drink after it was mixed and before it was distributed to the various school lunchrooms.
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