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Poisoned by unripe ackee fruit
HG gave a small dinner party, and in honour of one of the guests who was Jamaican,
prepared a traditional Jamaican dish, ackee with rice and salt fish, as well
as a number of other dishes.
Unfortunately, she had used unripe ackee fruit.
Only two of the guests ate any of ackee dish, and about an hour after the meal both became unconscious. An ambulance was called and they were taken to hospital. Emergency measurement of their blood glucose showed that it was dangerously low: 1.9 mmol /L in one case and 2.1 mmol /L in the other.