MADAGASCAR: 14 dead from poisoned sardines

FOODBORNE ILLNESS, FATAL - MADAGASCAR: (TOLIARA) FISH
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Date: Wed 6 Apr 2011
Source: BigNewsNetwork.com [edited]
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At least 14 people have died in Madagascar from poisoned fish. Around
120 other people are seriously ill, with some in hospitals, after
ingesting the toxic sardines which had been caught in the
south-western town of Toliara.
Samples of the fish have been sent for analysis.
In previous food poisoning incidents the contaminated sardines had
eaten poisonous seaweed, which now proliferates on local reefs.