{"id":184940,"date":"2024-03-11T21:32:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T02:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/nine-people-die-after-eating-sea-turtle-meat"},"modified":"2024-03-11T21:32:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T02:32:30","slug":"nine-people-die-after-eating-sea-turtle-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/nine-people-die-after-eating-sea-turtle-meat","title":{"rendered":"Nine People Die After Eating Sea Turtle Meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nine-people-die-after-eating-sea-turtle-meat2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the Zanzibarian island of Pemba, sea turtle meat is considered a delicacy \u2014 but it also, apparently, can fatally poison you.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/zanzibar-pemba-sea-turtle-meat-deaths-578d9cbec818ac88945da6b678ef0eaf\" class=\"\"><em>Associated Press<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/eight-children-and-one-woman-die-after-eating-sea-turtle-meat-on-zanzibar-island-13092126\" class=\"\">other outlets report<\/a>, nine people have died and 78 others were hospitalized after eating sea turtle on Pemba, an island in the Zanzibar archipelago in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saveur.com\/cayman-island-sea-turtles\/\" class=\"\">veal-tasting meat<\/a> of green turtles is, like in <a href=\"https:\/\/conserveturtles.org\/information-sea-turtles-threats-harvest-consumption\/\" class=\"\">other coastal communities<\/a> throughout Asia and Africa, still a delicacy on Zanzibar \u2014 despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/underthewave-zanzibar.com\/hatchery-project\/\" class=\"\">endangered status<\/a> of the animals and, as this incident indicates, its predisposition towards severe and sometimes fatal food poisoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Zanzibarian island of Pemba, sea turtle meat is considered a delicacy \u2014 but it also, apparently, can fatally poison you. As the Associated Press and other outlets report, nine people have died and 78 others were hospitalized after eating sea turtle on Pemba, an island in the Zanzibar archipelago in the Indian Ocean. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}