1.   A Department of Health spokesman said they were still checking to see if the people with confirmed and suspected cholera had eaten undercooked cockles.

2.   A MOTHER and her two daughters were in hospital last night with suspected cholera after eating cockles.

3.   Health chiefs say the women became ill after eating cockles reportedly bought from their neighbourhood market in Chuk Yuen Estate, Wong Tai Sin, last Wednesday.

4.   Health officials tracing the source of the disease said both patients had eaten cockles that were not thoroughly cooked.

5.   She and other health officials said eating cockles this way was unhygienic as cockles and other shellfish often carried disease organisms.

6.   The suspension of sales came around the same time that a mother and her two grown daughters became ill after eating cockles.

7.   The women ate cockles bought from their neighbourhood market in Chuk Yuen Estate in Wong Tai Sin last Wednesday.

8.   The women vomited and had diarrhoea on Friday after eating cockles last Wednesday.

9.   They became ill after eating cockles, but it is unclear whether all the cockles involved were undercooked.