Orissa: Two dead, 11 ill from contaminated/undercooked ox meat

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I have the feeling this is common in that area, as this is the third such report this month.

http://trak.in/news/two-tribals-die-after-eating-contaminated-meat/11396/

Two tribals die after eating contaminated meat
3 ► Retweetby Indo Asian News Service on October 7, 2009


Bhubaneswar, Oct 7 (IANS) Two people, including a 68-year-old woman, died and 11 others fell sick after eating contaminated meat in Orissa?s Sundergarh district, a health official said Wednesday.

They ate half-cooked meat early this week in Kendughati village of Sundergarh, about 540 km from state capital Bhubaneswar.


?The two tribal people died during the past two days. As many as 11 developed illness,? a senior district health official told IANS.




?All those sick are undergoing treatment. The condition of a 22-year-old woman is critical,? he said.


A team of doctors was sent to the village Wednesday, the official added.

 

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And here's another one for good measure, although this one is a few weeks old.

http://trak.in/news/four-tribals-die-after-eating-mango-kernel-in-orissa/2733/


Koratpur (Orissa), Sep 4 (ANI): Four tribesmen died in Koraput district of Orissa after they were forced to eat a soup made of mango kernel recently.

Preliminary medical reports said the soup was bacteria-infected and the tribals, who belong to Narayanpatna block, died of food poisoning.

?My wife and two of my grand daughters died. They consumed mango kernel and wild leaves, as we didn?t have anything else to eat. Most of the times we consume this because we do not have rice at our homes,? said Balsi Suika, relative of the dead.



However, Surya Narayan Patra, the state revenue minister said that the tribals were provided with rice, but they often keep it for a number of days, leading to food poisoning.

?The habit of tribals is to keep cooked rice for four to five days which actually gets spoilt. In recent cases the reports from doctors confirm that they kept the food for a longer period of time. We have directed the extension officer and the collector to propagate them about it in those areas,? said Patra. (ANI)

 

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Apparently Orissa has a severe problem with people dying from eating contaminated food.