On Saturday, 8 children and a woman died on Pemba Island in the Zanzibar Archipelago in Tanzania, after eating sea turtle meat, while 78 others were transported to hospitals, according to what the newspaper reported.Guardian” British.
Sea turtle meat is a popular food in Zanzibar, but it periodically leads to deaths due to “chelonitoxism,” a type of food poisoning.
Dr. Haji Bakari, Makwani District Medical Officer, said that the woman who died was the mother of one of the children who died earlier.
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Bakari told the Associated Press that laboratory tests confirmed that all the victims ate sea turtle meat.
Authorities in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous region in the East African nation of Tanzania, sent a disaster management team and urged people to avoid eating sea turtles.
In November 2021, 7 people, including a 3-year-old child, died in Pemba after eating turtle meat, while 3 others were taken to hospital.
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