<p>Close on the heels of 23 children's death in Bihar after eating mid-day-meal, at least 39 students today fell ill after consuming food, contaminated by a dead scorpion, served under the scheme at their school in Odisha's Dhenkanal district, officials said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Latika Behera (11), a class-V student of the Upper Primary School at Siaria Tailasahi in Dhenkanal area, while consuming the meal allegedly spotted the scorpion in the served potato-soya curry, they said.<br /><br />Soon, the children complained of uneasiness and started vomiting. They were rushed to the district headquarters hospital here. Thirty-six of them were discharged after preliminary treatment, while three, including two girls, are undergoing treatment, Dhenkanal Block Extension Officer Dhanjaya Mohapatra said.<br /><br />Altogether 39 of the 48 students, most of them tribals, had attended the school today and consumed the mid-day-meal, the officials said.</p>
<p>Close on the heels of 23 children's death in Bihar after eating mid-day-meal, at least 39 students today fell ill after consuming food, contaminated by a dead scorpion, served under the scheme at their school in Odisha's Dhenkanal district, officials said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Latika Behera (11), a class-V student of the Upper Primary School at Siaria Tailasahi in Dhenkanal area, while consuming the meal allegedly spotted the scorpion in the served potato-soya curry, they said.<br /><br />Soon, the children complained of uneasiness and started vomiting. They were rushed to the district headquarters hospital here. Thirty-six of them were discharged after preliminary treatment, while three, including two girls, are undergoing treatment, Dhenkanal Block Extension Officer Dhanjaya Mohapatra said.<br /><br />Altogether 39 of the 48 students, most of them tribals, had attended the school today and consumed the mid-day-meal, the officials said.</p>