The delicious but dangerous turtle meat of Indonesia

The Jakarta Post reports that a 57-year-old man died and 139 residents of South Pagai Island, in Mentawai, West Sumatra, have been treated for food poisoning after consuming the meat of a leatherback turtle.

Tiolina Saogo, chief of South Pagai public health center, told The Jakarta Post 30 residents had been put under intensive care.

There are frequent deaths from turtle-meat poisoning on the islands off the West Sumatran coast.

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