Plus botulism has very specific symptoms including paralysis. The entire family would have been sicker. There are tons of different food pathogens, though, and some of them can cause death. +1 to staying in country when you travel. |
I think it’s probably histamines from improperly stored fish. |
I had this happen to me once. Quite scary! I had to pull off the freeway to find the closest drugstore and gulped down some anti-histamines. |
The food poisoning didn’t kill him. Whatever they used to treat him did. |
I have never heard of this. Can you okease elaborate? |
For the life of me I don't get the appeal. Do people just get off on feeling like they're the king of a third world plantation with desperate servants at their beck and call? |
NP - you are incredibly uneducated. Yes, Costa Rica is *in* Central America, which is a geographic region which tells you nothing about the area other than where it is. But as the PP said, it doesn't have the same issues as many other countries - you can drink the water from the tap, for example. Also, your risk assessment stinks. |
Does Costa Rica really merit the same caution as the other two? |
I read somewhere that the family members tested positive for Fentanyl.
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With the Musk/Trump cuts to the food safety programs here in USA, you'll get the food poisoning experience right here in the USA. |
It’s near third world countries and in an unsafe part of the world. Plus you can get Zika from mosquitoes there. No thank you! |
They want to go zip lining in the jungle. |
Maybe the restaurant wanted to steal from them and incapacitate them with drugs. |
This is exactly what I think happened- drug overdose. Pills. |
I have always been concerned about traveling to these countries. Now I think I will pass.
These three women died of carbon monoxide poisoning in Belize. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna198657 |