9 people dead and 78 others hospitalized after eating sea turtle meat on Zanzibar's Pemba Island

Research on the biochemistry of both poisonous turtle tissues and tissues of turtle poisoning patients is scant, and local medical practitioners have minimal treatment protocols for chelonitoxism at their disposal.

This is a poverty problem more than anything.

But yeah the adults should have known better. In addition, they should have at least been wise enough to not risk children. They are weaker, smaller, and more susceptible to dying from those things.

I feel bad for the children and their families.

I don't know much about Zanzibar but it's possible they were just naive to the ill effects.

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Perhaps read the article first:

Eight children and an adult died

It would still be an awful comment to make if nine adults had died.

It’s lack of education about “traditional” foods that are the problem.