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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
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Paul Myers

French health chiefs ban oyster sales in Bordeaux amid norovirus scare

Oysters on display in Andernos-les-Bains near Bordeaux, south-western France, on 19 December 2012. © REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

Health authorities in southwestern France have temporarily banned the sales of oysters from the famous Bay of Arcachon after several people suffered food poisoning.

Several cases of acute gastroenteritis have been reported in recent days, so far none of them life-threatening.

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