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9 people dead and 78 others hospitalized after eating sea turtle meat on Zanzibar's Pemba Island (apnews.com)

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[-] aniki@lemm.ee 40 points 6 months ago

this sounds fucking awful....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelonitoxism

No eating Crush...

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Low fever, thirst, constipation and spontaneous abortion have also been reported

The way this is worded made me think of someone suddenly craving to get an abortion. Miscarriage... It just means miscarriage. Why would it be better to phrase it as is instead of miscarriage?

[-] Confound4082@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

That's the actual medical term for it.

[-] aniki@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Cool thing about wikipedia -- create an account, make a point in the talk thread, see what the watchers will respond with.

[-] redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 6 months ago

Oh no ... next time how about not eating sea turtles?

[-] match@pawb.social 28 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

*animals

[-] 3volver@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

This is nature's way of saying "leave the sea turtles the fuck alone".

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Wiki says it needs to be parboiled several times.

[-] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

This is terrible, awful! But why? There are multiple reasons I wouldn't eat that, but also they have the Internet there.

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