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Tuesday 06 August 1996 23:02 BST
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Japan officially declared the food-poisoning germ that has been sweeping the country a contagious disease, invoking a rarely used law to give authorities greater powers to contain the illness.

The invoking of the Infectious Disease Prevention Law for the first time in two decades came amid mounting concern about the public response, with reports of sufferers facing discrimination. Reuter - Tokyo

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