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Eight children and an adult died after eating sea turtle meat on Pemba Island in the Zanzibar archipelago and 78 other people were hospitalized, authorities said Saturday.Sea turtle meat is considered a delicacy by Zanzibar s people even though it periodically results in deaths from chelonitoxism, a type of food poisoning.The adult who died late Friday was the mother of one of the children who succumbed earlier, said the Mkoani District medical officer, Dr. Haji Bakari. He said the turtle meat was consumed on Tuesday.Bakari told The Ass stanley cup becher ociated Press that laboratory tests had confirmed all the victims had eaten sea turtle meat.Authorities in Zanzibar, which is a semi-autonomous region of the East African nation of Tanzania, sent a disaster management team led by Hamza Hassan Juma, who urged people to avoid consuming sea turtles.In November 2021, seven people, including a 3-year-old, died on Pemba after eating turtle meat while three others were hospitalized.Trending stories at ScrippsnewsHaiti descends into c stanley cup haos, facing an uncertain futureFamily of US hostage Omer Neutra holds out hope after Hamas kidnappingForeigners trapped in violence-t stanley cup orn Haiti wait desperately to get out Ynug Florida woman wins $1 million on $5 scratch-off
CHICAGO, Ill. 鈥?In 2016, some 33 million ballots were cast by mail, about one quarter of all votes cast. With pandemic protocols and precautions in place, experts estimate a record-breaking number of mail-in votes this election cycle.Voting by mail has been in place for more than 150 years 鈥?since the Civil War. It s become so common in the United States that since 2010, about a quarter of the electorate has voted by mail in federal elections, said Lawrence Norden, director of the Election Reform Program at the non-partisan Brennan Center for Justice.Some states have whats known as a universal vote-by-mail system, which means they mail ballots to all their voters. But in most states, voters must request an absentee ballot. Most of them have made exceptions for 2020, because of COVID and so what we have left is only a handful of states where you need an excuse to vote by mail, said Norden.According to the National Confe stanley cup becher rence of State Legislatures, normally 34 states and Washington, D.C. allow no-excuse absentee/mailed ballot voting. Those include: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, garrafinhas stanley Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota stanley cup nz , Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.Five automatically mail ballots to voters: Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Uta |
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