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Sunday, March 10, 2024 08:28 AM
8 children and a woman died on Pemba Island in the Zanzibar Archipelago in Tanzania, after eating sea turtle meat, while 78 others were transferred to hospitals, according to Al Hurra website..
Sea turtle meat is a popular food in Zanzibar, but it periodically leads to deaths due to infection with…“chelonitoxism”It is a type of food poisoning.
Dr. Haji Bakari, the medical officer in Makwani district, said that the woman who died was the mother of one of the children who died earlier..
A southern Chinese zoo announced that the only known female in the world of an extremely rare species of turtle has died.
Bakari said that laboratory tests confirmed that all the victims ate sea turtle meat.
Authorities in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous region in the East African country of Tanzania, sent a disaster management team and urged people to avoid eating sea turtles..
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