By Bisola Adeyemo
Nineteen people have reported died from food poisoning in Madagascar after eating a turtle.
Thirty-four people were hospitalised in Vatomandry, in the east of the island, after eating the protected species, the Health and Food Safety Control Agency said, while 10 of them died, it said.
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Also, other 9 people, all of them children, died at home after eating meat from the same turtle, the region’s governor said.
Health authorities have warned against eating turtles, as well two dozen species of fish, which feed on algae that can be toxic during the November-March hot season.
Dozens of food poisonings occur each year in coastal Madagascar and deaths are common.
Guardian gathered that sixteen fatalities were recorded in two incidents in the 2017-18 hot season.
