Thread: Thailand: Unexplained Vomiting Deaths of Foreigners

Canadian tourist dies in Vietnam

By QMI AGENCY
Posted 18 days ago
A Canadian tourist has died in Vietnam, the Foreign Affairs department confirmed Saturday.

The department declined to identify the individual. But a spokesman said from Ottawa that Canadian consular officials in Ho Chi Minh City are in contact with local authorities to gather additional information and are providing consular assistance to the family.

However a Vietnamese website reports Cathy Huynh, 26, a Canadian citizen of Vietnamese origin, went into shock on Wednesday and died after suffering cardiac arrest early Thursday morning.

Huynh had taken Karin Joy Bowerman, a 27-year-old American woman, to the Khanh Hoa Province Hospital on July 30 where Bowerman died later that night after suffering from respiratory failure, the Tuoitrenews website reported.

The two women had shared a hotel room in the beachside city of Nha Trang, and food poisoning is suspected in the deaths, it reported.
In June, Audrey and Noemi Belanger, aged 20 and 25, two sisters from eastern Quebec, were found dead in their hotel room on Phi Phi Island in Thailand under mysterious circumstances.
Results from the preliminary autopsies conducted in Thailand did not reveal how they died and said only that no traces of drugs were found in their bodies.
Quebec's coroner conducted a second autopsy, results of which are still unknown.
Thai authorities said there were no signs of violence in the room, but they said there was vomit on the floor and other signs the women were poisoned.

Canadian tourist dies in Vietnam - Cold Lake Sun - Alberta, CA

Vietnam looks into death of US, Canadian tourists

Vietnamese authorities are investigating the mysterious deaths of two tourists from the United States and Canada who stayed in the same guesthouse, official media reported Monday.

American Karin Joy Bowerman, 27, and Canadian Cathy Huynh, 26, died last week at a hospital in southern Nha Trang province, the Tuoi Tre newspaper said.

Bowerman died on July 30 after suffering "a mysterious illness'' and respiratory failure, while Huynh died two days later after developing similar symptoms and suffering a cardiac arrest, the report said.

The pair, who had shared a room in a guesthouse in Nha Trang -- a popular seaside resort -- might have "drunk too much wine'' which led to their deaths, a police investigator told the paper.

The family of Huynh, a Canadian of Vietnamese descent, has disputed this account, the report said, adding that police are waiting for the results of the autopsy tests to establish the cause of death, AFP reports.

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