Quebec Sisters Died In Thailand From Drinking DEET

[pdogg]

The death earlier this year in Thailand of two sisters from Quebec was caused by drinking a cocktail that contained the insect repellent DEET, an autopsy concluded.

Results of the autopsy at a Bangkok hospital have not been publicly released, but they were shown to reporters for CBC's French-language news network.

According to the report, 20-year-old Audrey and Noémi Bélanger, 25, had DEET in their bodies that they had ingested.

Though the chemical is a potentially neurotoxic mosquito repellent, it is used as an ingredient in a euphoria-inducing cocktail that is popular among youth in Thailand. The drink contains cough syrup, Coke, DEET and ground up kratom leaves, which are a mild narcotic indigenous to Thailand.

It is thought that an overdose of DEET was accidentally mixed into the young women's drinks.

They had just arrived on the Thai island of Phi Phi and were last seen partying with two Brazilian friends in the early morning of June 13. Forty-eight hours later, when staff at their hotel hadn't seen them emerge from their room, a receptionist called police.

The sisters were staying on the Thai resort island of Phi Phi, about a 90-minute ferry ride from Phuket. (CBC)

The sisters werefound dead in their room, and it was speculated that poisoning, probably accidental, played a role. Police said they found no signs of foul play.

However, officers did find a lot of vomit in the room and there was blood on the young women's faces, leading investigators to say early on that the women may have suffered some kind of toxic reaction.

Another autopsy is supposed to take place in Montreal, but final results from that are expected to take months. The Bélangers were from Pohénégamook, in Quebec's Lower Saint Lawrence region.

http://www.cbc.ca/ne...nsecticide.html

[williethepimp]

tragic.who on earth dreams up these "cocktails"?

[Rogue]

Who in there right mind drinks DEET really, it is the best mosi repellent though

[Guest JustSumGai]

Thin the herd

[Kahuna]

Gives new meaning to "Strange Brew"

[pdogg]

Case closed.

“We have been asked by the Canadian Embassy and the [belanger] family to not reveal anything about the case. We are standing by that. The cause of death in the police report to the embassy is “Unknown”,”

http://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/articles/2012/article18071.html

[pdogg]

October 11, 2012

Now Canadian Pathologists have confirmed, in a coroner’s report, that the levels of Deet, a pesticide,, found in the bodies of two dead sisters was NOT the cause of their death.

In Quebec . a coroner ruled that their deaths were accidental, caused by some form of poisoning, and that Its likely that they had indeed ingested something which had poisoned them, but it was not DEET as the concentration of DEET within their bodies was not sufficient to have been fatal

http://www.pattaya103.com/deet-did-not-kill-canadian-sisters/