Children were poisoned en masse at a camp near Pervouralsk in the Sverdlovsk region.

On the poisoning at the A. Gaidar country camp, with reference to the mother of one of the schoolchildren сообщает E1.RU edition.

"The medical center is overcrowded. Children are vomiting one after another, the management is keeping quiet about everything, and the teenagers themselves are complaining and asking to be taken home.", — journalists quote the woman. — My [son] developed a fever on Friday evening and was taken to the infirmary. The nurse said he was the only one there who was sick. On Saturday, when his fever subsided, he was released. My child says there are five to seven other people in his unit who are sick and vomiting.

Meanwhile, the regional Rospotrebnadzor agency denies an outbreak of intestinal infection, but confirms that children did seek medical attention with abdominal pain and nausea. Sanitary doctors are currently conducting an investigation.

To be clear, this isn't the first time schoolchildren have been poisoned at Russian children's camps this summer. Similar incidents were previously reported in Verkhnyaya Pyshma Sverdlovsk region, And in The Nizhny Novgorod regionA child died at a children's camp after severe streptococcal poisoning.