As for Aluminium phosphide (AlP) that is a highly toxic inorganic compound used primarily as a fumigant and rodenticide. It releases phosphine gas, which is flammable, when it reacts with moisture, posing significant health risks, including potential poisoning and accidental deaths.
Symptoms of Exposure
Inhalation: Can cause respiratory distress, nausea, vomiting, and chest pain. Ingestion: May lead to severe gastrointestinal issues, including abdominal pain and vomiting of blood. Skin Contact: Can result in irritation and a sensation of pins and needles.
A friend’s daughter has a fungal infection which she probably got when they were visiting Turkey.
It is about 50% fatal. She is a healthy girl, 14, as I recall. We are praying for her.
It took the doctors a significant time to discover what the problem was. Such an infection is very rare in the USA. It is mostly found in the Middle East, which is why the trip to Turkey is the suspected source.
You couldn’t pay me enough to eat the food they bought. Yuck
*Update*
11 Arrested Over Vacation Deaths of Family of 4, as Chemical Pesticides Become Suspected Cause Instead of Food Poisoning
https://people.com/11-arrested-family-4-dead-chemical-pesticides-food-poisoning-11853419
Avoid traveling to Muslim countries. Bad things happen there.
Kinda surprised they stayed so long on their rooms if it was full of gasses from fumigation. Is that stuff odorless? Even leaving their rooms to go to the hospital wasn’t enough to save them.
Darwin snacks
a dish made from calf intestines
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Goodbye!
Turkish delights
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Oh yeah!
A few years back we took a vacation about 500 miles deep into northern Canada. Several miles north of Brandon, Manitoba we stopped at a fast food joint for burgers and fries.
We both bit into our hamburgers about the same time and both spit it out at the same time. The meat was cooked alright, but had a very pink color to it and certainly did not taste like beef. It had a sweet taste like I have read human flesh is supposed to taste like. The fries were cooked in stale grease. We both wanted to puke. I suspect the meat was wild game of some sort or just plain fake meat.
Farther north into Canada we ran across a McDonalds and was so happy to see a good place to eat. WRONG! It was a fake McDonalds. The golden arches on the outside never had the right shape, the uniforms were wrong and the food wrappers never had the McDonald logo on it. The place was dirtier than a barn.
We learned the safest way to eat way up north was buy food in a grocery store and prepare it yourself.
What a misleading headline!
“Police and prosecutors have a theory that a substance used in a bedbug treatment in a room on the hotel’s ground floor may have reached the family’s room through the bathroom ventilation shaft and poisoned them.”
So they died because of some chemical at the hotel!
If it was the food, they would not have been the only ones to die.
“...Traveling from Germany to Turkey...”
The aren’t Germans, they are Muslims visiting the mother land. They got a taste of the street food, sort of like going to New York city and eating a hotdog from a vender and then dying from it.
You’re better off eating turkey on the street than street food in Turkey.
Misleading and wrong headline
They were not stricken by the food they ate [ no mater how disgusting ], but killed by the air they breathed in the hotel room.
“stuffed mussels served cold with lemon ... kokorec, a dish made from calf intestines and tavuk tantuni”
Yummy. [sarc.] Turkey is not on any upcoming itinerary I have planned.
After the midye they each ordered different dishes at a restaurant, including kokorec, a dish made from calf intestines and tavuk tantuni, a type of Turkish chicken wrap.
I had tripe before (my grandfather loved it and it is okay), but I would never eat it as a street food.
I don’t think the name turkey has anything to do with the bird over there
In Spanish it’s Pavo
In Portuguese it’s Peru
In Italian tacchina
French it’s dinde
Kinda wierd
Good German names there.....