Thread: Deaths on Koh Phi Phi

Originally Posted by phuketbound

That faeces story is disgusting to say the least.

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I hope the Thailand police find out through the biopsy, what killed these two people so it doesn't happen to others.

It is so easy to get food poisoning on an Island. I had food poisoning when on Koh Tao, Thailand. It hit me so fast, I was on antibiotics, and near the bathroom for a good few days.

FOUR people have died , a man last month and now these two women .
And a dead man found floating May 1 or 2nd .

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<<<<<Dead foreigner found floating off Phi Phi Islands

PHUKET: Police on Koh Phi Phi are trying to identify the remains of a foreign man whose body was found floating about 3 nautical miles off the Phi Phi Islands in Krabi.

The body was recovered by workers from the Phuket Provincial Administration Organization’s Tourist Rescue Center, which operates out of Chalong Pier in Phuket.

The exact time of the body's recovery was not given in the police report, made at 10am today.

The man was found wearing only green trousers. His left arm bore a tattoo with the words “mother heart”.

Koh Phi Phi subdistrict police are now questioning people on the island and checking missing persons reports from Krabi and surrounding provinces, including Phuket, to try to identify the man.

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Slår giftalarm i thailandsk ferieparadis - VG Nett om Thailand

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......The Thai newspaper Andaman Times announces today that an American female tourist died suddenly on Sunday - hours before the two women were sick.

We also know that a Norwegian (46) died in Phi Phi Islands for about a month ago. He was on honeymoon when he was suddenly ill. Also he may have been poisoned.....

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Illness from accidental poisoning with spoiled food nearly always involves diarrhea in addition to throwing up. Intentional poison with by disgruntled restaurant worker, just vomiting.

Possible causes , quick Google search;

-Food spoilage usually has diarrhea too.

-Pufferfish and related toxins fit the symptoms

-Air conditioners are not listed as probable sources of Carbon Monoxide.


-Pesticide poisoning MAY cause blue skin as does cyanide, but cyanide is very quick
Mild poisoning or early symptoms of acute pesticide poisoning headache, fatigue, weakness, dizziness, restlessness, nervousness, perspiration, nausea, diarrhea, loss of appetite, loss of weight, thirst, moodiness, soreness in joints, skin irritation, eye irritation, irritation of the nose and throat.



-Radiation poisoning low level usually brings head ache, diarrhea and vomiting . Higher exposures one or all three symptoms with hair loss, rapid death.


Here's an interesting one, maybe BG/Medusa is familiar with it?

Yellow
phosphorus ;
Breath has garlic odor; feces may glow and smoke
from phosphorus fumes; vomiting and diarrhea;
burning pain in hroat, stomach and intestines

Originally Posted by MustavaMond

Possible causes , quick Google search;

-Air conditioners are not listed as probable sources of Carbon Monoxide.

Well, no, or a lot of us would be dead. If the intake for an aircon unit is close to a source of exhaust, like a pump or other type of motor, that exhaust will wind up in the room the aircon is cooling.

Let me give an example from my own experience- four other divers and myself were suiting up for a dive near Puerto Galera, having reached the site. The first guy to check his air supply noticed a slightly foul taste/odor to the air in his tank. We abandoned the dive and, arriving back at the shop, found that the workers fixing up the path outside the shop had set up a small motor (to run a mixer) on the other side of the wall from the air compressor, contaminating the air pumped into our tanks. Careless, but it happens.

URGENT: Phi Phi 'Poisoning' Kills Two Tourists - Phuket Wan
URGENT: Phi Phi 'Poisoning' Kills Two Tourists


[ No source for "poisoning " statement in headline. How does Phuket Wan know this ? The report states a companion thought the air in the room was involved. ]

By Chutima Sidasathian and Shanya Phattrasaya
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Phuketwan Updating News

THE CAUSE of poisoning [ not confirmed ] that killed two tourists on Phi Phi at the weekend is being investigated, the Governor of Krabi, Siwa Sirisaowalak said today.

The tourists, both young women, were from the US and Norway. They had been staying at the same local guesthouse.

A blog posted online by a companion who was travelling with one of the victims suggests that the air conditioning may have been the cause.


Thailand's top forensic scientist, Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand, is expected to be involved in autopsies to determine what killed the women.

A Bangkok specialist epidemiologist is already on Phil Phi, seeking to find the reason behind the mysterious fatalities.

A spokeswoman at Vachira Hospital on Phuket confirmed the bodies of a two women had been received from Phi Phi and sent on to Bangkok for forensic tests.

A third tourist, also a woman, was treated at Phi Phi Hospital and has been discharged.

Phuketwan has had conflicting reports about the precise circumstances of the deaths.

Police Lieutenant Pantanan Sangtong, who investigated the deaths, said the Norwegian woman died around 8am on Sunday at Phi Phi Hospital.

She had been staying with her boyfriend at a local guesthouse, the officer said.

On Monday, two Americans from the same guesthouse fell sick. One, a woman aged 26, died, Lieutenant Pantanan said.

The other American, also a woman, survived and had since been discharged from hospital.

The Norwegian embassy in Bangkok confirmed that a Norwegian citizen had died.

The 23-year-old woman will have an autopsy performed to determine the precise cause of her death, along with the other woman victim.

It is understood all three victims because ill suddenly on Phi Phi at the weekend. They were not travelling together.

Dr Buncha Khakong, of the Public Health Department in Krabi, told Phuketwan that the first woman victim arrived at the hospital at 7.20am on Sunday.

She was vomiting, feeling weak and had low blood pressure, he said. By 8am, she was dead.

She told nurses that she had been vomiting since 7pm the previous evening, Dr Buncha said. The patient thought at first that her illness might be a hangover from a drinking session.

Dr Buncha said a rudimentary autopsy performed at Phi Phi Hospital showed no obvious cause of death.

The second woman presented at the hospital at 9.30pm on Sunday, having fallen ill at 9.30am. She was dead by 11pm, he said.

No autopsy was done on Phi Phi on the second woman. Both bodies were sent to Phuket together, he said.

A spokeswoman for Sea Angel ferries, one of several companies that ply between Phuket and Phi Phi, said today that tourist arrival and departure numbers were normal.

Scandasia.com reported that according to the Foreign Ministry in Oslo, the Thai police has started an investigation into the cause of the death of the Norwegian woman.

Scandasia named the dead American woman as Jill St. Onge from Seattle, who was staying at the same guest house as the Norwegian woman, along with her boyfriend.

A spokeswoman at the American Embassy in Bangkok said this afternoon she could supply no information.

Phi Phi, part of Krabi province, is about an hour and 45 minutes by ferry from Thailand's main holiday island, Phuket.

It consists of two main islands and has recovered its popularity with backpackers since about 850 people died there during the 2004 tsunami. >>><<<



No mention of man floating in water May 1st, or Norwegian man reported dead, also in Phi Phi last month in Norwegian press