Posted on 10/01/2016 1:43:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
wo American sisters found unresponsive in their resort in the Seychelles died of excess fluid in their lungs, according to authorities in the island nation off Africa’s east coast.
Autopsies performed Wednesday showed Robin Korkki, 42, of Chicago, and Anne Korkki, 37, of Denver, died from acute pulmonary edema, or fluid in the lungs, police told the Seychelles News Agency.
Cerebral edema, or excess fluid in the brain, also contributed to Anne Korkki’s death, the news agency reported.
No explanation was offered for the fluid buildup in the women’s lungs.
Experts are conducting a toxicology analysis in a forensic laboratory in neighboring Mauritius, according to the news agency.
No visible injuries
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Coming up too quick from a dive?
Interesting. I was thinking maybe an allergic reaction to fish dinner or some kind of food.
Apparently they became intoxicated after consuming booze and had to be escorted/guided back to their rooms by hotel personnel ... strange ...
Very strange. Although it doesn’t totally fit, it makes me wonder if they did ‘resort diving’ with bad training and supervision and wound up with immersion pulmonary edema combined with severe decompression sickness. Just a thought.
You beat me to it.
I was owing to say sounds like high altitude sickness but if they had been diving that is a different issue.
Dam
“Experts are conducting a toxicology analysis in a forensic laboratory in neighboring Mauritius, according to the news agency.”
Might want to bring some back to be tested here, too.
I’m sure their technology is more advanced than the witch doctor swirling it around in his mouth, but just to be sure.
Hyponatremia, that can happen when the body is too
low salt and too high water.
Can happen to distance runners, more
Common in women.
Both sisters simultaneously and fatally, though?
dwoned in the bathtb
sounds like maybe they both consumed drugged drinks
If both on real low Salt Diets and add lots of beer.... once call beer patomia(sp) and was thought to only happen to alcholics . Meds like SSRIs are known to cause it
My thought too.
But, if they were both intoxicated, they could have most likely expired without ever really knowing they were in any kind of trouble.
How sad.
Can’t drinking a lot of distilled water cause that, too?
I’m thinking that maybe their apparent intoxication was this condition setting in, whatever it was. Unless there are witnesses who saw them consume a great deal of alcohol, that is.
Not being aware enough to seek medical attention is sad, yes. If it was going to lead to death anyway, though, it might have been a blessing.
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