Zanzibar: Eating turtle meat proved costly for hundreds of people in the Zanzibar Islands near the African country Tanzania. In fact, here on Pemba Island of Zanzibar Islands, 8 children and 1 woman died after eating sea turtle meat. Apart from these, the health of 78 other people has deteriorated till now. After falling ill, all the people were hurriedly admitted to the hospital. Officials gave this information on Saturday. Let us tell you that sea turtle meat is highly toxic, due to which it is advised not to eat it.
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In fact, the people of Zanzibar eat sea turtle meat with great enthusiasm. However, due to this, incidents of death due to food poisoning are often reported. Regarding this entire incident, Makoani District Medical Officer Dr. Haji Bakri said that a woman died after consuming poisonous food late on Friday night. He told that one of the children of this woman was also among the children who died after eating sea turtle meat. He told that these people had eaten turtle meat on Tuesday.
Urge not to eat turtle meat
Giving information, District Medical Officer Dr. Haji Bakri said that laboratory tests have confirmed that all the people had eaten sea turtle meat. After the incident, officials of Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous region of the East African country Tanzania, sent a disaster management team, which urged people not to eat sea turtle meat. Similarly, in Pemba in November 2021, 7 people, including a three-year-old child, died after eating turtle meat. At that time, three other people also fell ill and were admitted to the hospital.
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