Eight youngsters and an grownup have died after consuming sea turtle meat on Pemba Island within the Zanzibar archipelago, and 78 different individuals have been taken to hospital, authorities mentioned on Saturday.
Sea turtle meat is taken into account a delicacy in Zanzibar however it periodically leads to deaths from chelonitoxism, a sort of meals poisoning.
The grownup who died late on Friday was the mom of one of many youngsters who succumbed earlier, mentioned the Mkoani district medical officer, Dr Haji Bakari. He mentioned the turtle meat was consumed on Tuesday.
Bakari instructed the Related Press that laboratory exams had confirmed all of the victims had eaten sea turtle meat.
Authorities in Zanzibar, which is a semi-autonomous area of the east African nation of Tanzania, despatched a catastrophe administration workforce that urged individuals to keep away from consuming sea turtles.
In November 2021, seven individuals, together with a three-year-old, died on Pemba after consuming turtle meat and three others have been hospitalised.
