Consuming sea turtle meat killed 9 people
| Consuming sea turtle meat in Tanzania killed nine people, including eight children. |
reported by Mehr News Agency quoted by the Associated Press, Dr. Haji Bakari, the chief physician of Umkwani district located on Pemba island in the semi-autonomous archipelago Zanzibar in Tanzania announced It was reported that eight children and one adult died due to the consumption of sea turtle meat, and 87 other people were hospitalized.
Sea turtle meat is one of the delicacies among the people of Zanzibar archipelago in Tanzania; However, its consumption sometimes leads to death due to food poisoning called chelonitoxism.
The adult who died after consuming this food is the mother of a child who He had suffocated before. According to Bakari, the test results confirmed that all the victims had consumed this meat.
By sending a crisis management team to the region, the authorities of this archipelago asked people to stop consuming sea turtle meat. avoid In November 2021, seven people, including a three-year-old child, died after consuming turtle meat.
