Nine members of same family die after eating homemade noodles left in freezer

Seven adults died after eating Suantangzi, a popular Chinese delicacy, but the noodles had become?contaminated with bongkrek acid.?Two others from the same family died later

Michael Moran&Jamie Hawkins

23:08, 20 OCT 2020

contaminate /k?n?t?m??ne?t/

1. 污染? Have any fish been contaminated in the Arctic Ocean? 北冰洋里有魚受到污染了嗎?

2. 污染?? The contamination of the ocean around Puget Sound may be just the beginning. 普吉特海灣周圍海域的污染可能才開始。

bongkrek acid：米酵菌酸

Nine people from the same family died after eating noodles that were left in a freezer.

The noodles, which were kept in the freezer for over a year, contained fermented corn flour,?which poisoned the family with bongrekik acid.

ferment ?/f??ment/ （使）發(fā)酵??Fruit juices ferment if they are kept for too long. 果汁存放過久就會發(fā)酵。（政治或社會上的）動亂，騷動，紛擾?The country is in ferment. 這個國家動蕩不安。

Seven adults, from the city of Jixi in China’s northeastern province of Heilongjiang, died on October 10 after eating the dish called Suantangzi, a local Chinese delicacy, five days earlier.

The final surviving family member who ate the soup, a woman named locally as Li, died on Monday, Daily Star reports.

Luckily, three children who had been served the corn noodle meal at the family occasion had refused to eat it because they didn’t like the taste.

Gao Fei, director of food safety at the Heilongjiang Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, told China News Service that bongkrek acid poisoning is often fatal.

The symptoms of bongkrek poisoning typically begin within a few hours of eating contaminated food, and include stomach pain, sweating, general?weakness, and eventual coma.?Death can occur within 24 hours.

coma ?n. /?k??m?/ 昏迷?? to go into/be in a coma 陷入╱處于昏迷狀態(tài)

“It can cause serious damage to many human organs including the liver, kidneys, heart, and brain,” Mr Gao said.

“Currently, there is no specific antidote.?Once poisoned, the fatality rate can be as high as 40% to 100%.”

antidote n. ??/??ntid??t/ ?

1.解毒藥；解毒劑??There is no known antidote to the poison. 這種毒的解藥尚未發(fā)現(xiàn)。

2.消除不愉快的事物；矯正方法??A Mediterranean cruise was the perfect antidote to a long cold winter. 到地中海航游是度過漫長寒冬的絕妙辦法。

Mr Gao said bongkrek acid is resistant to being boiled at high temperatures.?Bongkrek acid is a deadly toxin produced in fermented coconut. The traditional Indonesian dish?tempe bongkrèk?has been banned because it has been linked to so many deaths.

Between 1951 and 1975, an average of 288 poisonings and 34 deaths ascribed to bongkrek acid were reported in Indonesia every year.

ascribe v. ??/??skra?b/ ?

1.A?SCRIBE STH TO SB 認(rèn)為…是（某人）所寫

?This play is usually ascribed to Shakespeare. 通常認(rèn)為這部劇是莎士比亞所寫。

2.A?SCRIBE STH TO SB/STH

(1) 把…歸因于；認(rèn)為…是由于??He ascribed his failure to bad luck. 他認(rèn)為自己的失敗是運氣不好。

(2) 認(rèn)為…具有?We ascribe great importance to these policies. 我們認(rèn)為這些政策十分重要。

Djenkol beans, another Indonesian delicacy, have also been blamed for numerous deaths.

Bongkrek acid?contamination?in locally-produced beer was also blamed for 75 deaths and over 200 hospitalisations after a funeral in Mozambique.

Mozambique?/?m??z?m?bi?k/莫桑比克（非洲東南部國家，首都馬普托）

原文鏈接：https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/nine-members-same-family-die-22878951

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