<b>Don’t eat crickets warning</b>

Nation (Thailand) ^ | May 21, 2005 | Staff

[JimSEA]

Health authorities yesterday warned villagers not to eat crickets or sell them as food after more than 100 people in Ban Phai district were hospitalised with nausea and diarrhoea this week. The patients all had eaten fried crickets that were bought either from a local market or from street hawkers.

A handful of villagers were hospitalised late Sunday night with nausea and diarrhoea, with the number swelling by around another 100 on Tuesday, said Ban Phai Hospital director Dr Prayoon Kowit.

All said they ate fried crickets that were either bought at Ban Phai Market or from street hawkers driving around villages, Prayoon said.

Fried-cricket samples have been sent to the Medical Science Centre to determine if people got sick because of unsanitary cooking conditions or toxic contamination, the doctor said.

Chu Latha, 73, who has been eating fried crickets for decades, said her son had bought raw crickets from Ban Phai market and then fried them.

Family members later developed nausea and diarrhoea after eating the insects and had to go to hospital, she said.

The Khon Kaen Health Office yesterday issued a warning urging villagers not to sell or eat cricket, no matter how well they were cooked.

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[F.J. Mitchell]

"With plenty of PCBs."

Isn't that just a little excessive on the bitters?

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Damn those musloons will eat anything, but pork. NSNR

Thailand? More likely Buddhist.

Crickets are Kosher, I don't know if they are halal.

[No Surrender No Retreat]

Thanks for the update as to the consumers. It is always a pleasure to slam the muzzies on anything for they are infidel intolerant. Remember 9/11 and you can see how the muzkies are not status quo and longer. It is a great day to be an American and to hell with the musklems & halal. NSNR