Sea turtle meat, an area dish broadly most popular by vacationers, precipitated deaths in Pemba within the Zanzibar archipelago.
8 kids and 1 grownup died and 78 individuals have been hospitalized because of turtle meat, which periodically causes a kind of meals poisoning known as chelonitoxication.
Mkoani district well being director Dr. Haji Bakari stated that the grownup who died on Friday was the mom of one of many kids who died earlier than. Bakari said that the affected person ate turtle meat on Tuesday.
Bakari instructed The Related Press that laboratory checks confirmed that each one sufferers ate sea turtle meat.
This isn’t the primary time
Zanzibari authorities despatched a disaster management workforce to the area and known as for sea turtles to not be consumed.
In 2021, seven individuals, together with a 3-year-old baby, died from sea turtle poisoning.
