10 die, 100 ill after dog carcass feast

PHNOM PENH: Cambodian health officials were dispatched to a rural northeastern district where 10 people died and more than 100 fell ill in two separate incidents linked to the consumption of dog meat and rice wine. Kratie provincial health department chief Chhneang Sivutha said yesterday experts from the UN World Health Organisation were investigating the incidents in Snuol district. He also said people in the province have been warned not to eat the meat of animals that have died from illness or poisoning, and not to drink uninspected wine. Six people died last Sunday after eating the barbequed carcass of a dog that died for unknown reasons. The other four died after drinking rice wine on Tuesday.