Cholera outbreak in China

BEIJING - An outbreak of cholera, reportedly caused by unclean food, sickened 30 people in a province in east China, health officials said.

The cholera outbreak was reported in Mengcheng county in Anhui province, Xinhua reported.

The patients were hospitalised as most of them showed symptoms that include vomiting and diarrhoea, officials with the Anhui provincial health bureau said Saturday.

Medical experts have been sent to the county to assist in the treatment.