Hibachi Horror, ~3 dozen hospitalized, sickened after teen party at Kumo Sushi-Steakhouse

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The unsettling scene left victims "projectile vomiting" inside and outside the Kumo Sushi and Steakhouse, a popular Long Island restaurant near Stony Brook University, according to witnesses.

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Dozens fall ill at teen's sushi restaurant birthday bash, but raw fish may not be to blame
12 hospitalized, 28 sickened after dining at Kumo Sushi & Steakhouse - Eleven 13-year-olds went out to a birthday lunch Saturday and wound up being rushed to the hospital after an apparent food poisoning sickened more than two dozen people, according to New York health officials. "The common denominator seemed to be the rice," Arial Arias told Fox News Digital on Monday. The girls ordered different meals — chicken, beef, vegetables — but they all came with rice.

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Bacillus cereus grown in a laboratory dish. The bacteria can release toxins if left out at room temperature with cooked rice.

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Now Arias' daughter and 10 friends, all on the same competitive dance team, are suffering from anxiety and lingering stomach pain and worried about whether they'll be able to make their next competition, she said. They sat down to eat around 2 p.m. and were all sick before 4 p.m., she said.

The birthday girl initially wanted to bring her friends to a nearby Italian restaurant, Arias said.

"I said, 'Oh, Kumo, it's more of an experience,'" she said of the hibachi-style Kumo Sushi and Steakhouse, where the family has dined many times before. "It's so much more fun. I kind of forced her into it — so I have so much guilt that she didn't even want to do it there. And this happened."

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