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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Sea turtle meat is considered a delicacy by Zanzibar's people even though it periodically results in deaths from chelonitoxism, a type of food poisoning.
The adult who died late Friday was the mother of one of the children who succumbed earlier, said the Mkoani District medical officer, Dr. Haji Bakari.
Bakari told The Associated Press that laboratory tests had confirmed all the victims had eaten sea turtle meat.
Authorities in Zanzibar, which is a semi-autonomous region of the East African nation of Tanzania, sent a disaster management team led by Hamza Hassan Juma, who urged people to avoid consuming sea turtles.
That species has faced a new challenge caused by the warming waters off the northeast U.S. coast, which has led them to linger longer into the late autumn of Massachusetts, when they should have headed south.
Since the 1970s, Kemp's Ridley turtles have been washing ashore on Massachusetts beaches in a hypothermic-state called cold-stunning by the dozens.
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