At least I didn't drink the water

Dozens of Mexican schoolchildren were hospitalised after apparently falling ill from a meal at their kindergarten on Friday. Specifically, at least 38 children ages four and five became sick after lunch, which consisted of chicken salad and homemade agua de horchata (a refreshing rice water drink), at a state-run school in San Luis Rio Colorado, which sits right on the border across from Yuma, Arizona. And because of the rice water, which officials suspect was responsible for the food poisoning, 15 children suddenly showed up at a local clinic with vomiting, diarrhoea, and fever. The number more than doubled before the day was over. Whoever prepared the food should at the very least be sent on a food safety course lest it happen again. This could've been a lot worse if one of the children died, which thankfully none have. In other news, pharmaceutical firm Gruenenthal apologised on Friday for the first time over its drug, thalidomide, which caused babies to be born with shorter arms and legs after their mothers took it to counter morning sickness during pregnancy in the 1950s and 1960s.