Child Dies Eating Beans

One child, less than two years old, died, and three more are in critical condition at a hospital in Puerto Cortes, Honduras, after eating beans their mother prepared and served.

Carolina Barahona Jimenez, 22, a mother of four children, received 10 pounds of beans as a gift, and did not know they were beans for planting, not eating.
She, unknowingly, fed her children the beans that were not fit for human consumption.

The woman said that Mr. Martin Garcia, who gave her the package, did not say that the beans he had given her were only to be used for planting, so she decided to cook them. Once ready, she mixed them with rice and gave them to her children, and ate them herself, but hours later they were all ill.

“We all became sick. We had a fever, diarrhea, vomiting, pains throughout the body, especially in our eyes. We could not move, and had to ask for help from neighbors to find our way. We were taken to a health center or hospital,” the mother said.

The girl who died was identified as Jenny Carolina Jimenez Baker, two years old. They tried to revive her with water, cinnamon and chamomile tea, but the young child never recovered. The other minors are in serious condition and being attended to in the emergency room.


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