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Another mystery death in Thailand By Stuart Dye
5:21 PM Wednesday Mar 9, 2011
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MariamSoraya Vorster, left, died mysteriously in Chiang Mai just weeks beforeNew Zealander Sarah Carter, right. Photos / Supplied
Afifth tourist has died in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in circumstances eerilysimilar to New Zealander Sarah Carter's mysterious death - which healthofficials initially blamed on food poisoning.
American Mariam Soraya Vorster, a 33-year-old from Seattle working as aguide in Chiang Mai, died on January 11 - just over three weeks before23-year-old Sarah died.
Ms Vorster's husband Tony Pandolo told the Herald his wife was perfectly fit and healthy and became sick with symptoms of food poisoning before she died.
"I kept asking about the health department, or what the next stepswould be with the restaurant," Mr Pandolo said. "No one really seemedto know, and it turns out no one really did anything.
"Soraya had an autopsy at University Hospital in Chiang Mai on January 12 or 13 and we still have no results."
Ms Vorster's death is one of five in a six-week spell in Chiang Mai.
Localwoman Waraporn Pungmahisiranon died two days before Sarah and Britishpensioners George and Eileen Everitt died less than two weeks later.
Those deaths were all in the same hotel - the Downtown Inn.
Mr Pandolo said his wife was staying in a different hotel, but the symptoms were the same.
At a press conference in Bangkok yesterday, Chiang Mai Governor PannadaDisakul said: "We have to admit that these deaths coming one afteranother are nothing more than coincidence.
"We have done and will continue to do our utmost to make tourists confident in our city."
The press conference was told Mr and Mrs Everitt, 78 and 74, died within minutes of each other of heart attacks.
The couple's son Stephen Everitt yesterday told the Herald that was not a believable explanation.
"They had no history of heart problems or any other problems," said Mr Everitt from his home in Lincolnshire.
"They were active and healthy for their age and it has come as a total shock.
"And now they want me to believe they both had heart attacks at thesame time. It doesn't make sense. How can it be coincidence?"
Yesterday's press conference, which did not include details of MsVorster's death, was told tests were still being conducted into Sarah'sdeath.
Tests on tissue taken from Sarah Carter had been inconclusive andsamples had been sent for analysis to the United States and Japan, saidDr. Pasakorn Akaraseri, of the Communicable Disease Department ofThailand's Ministry of Health.
He said there was no evidence to suggest that any of the deaths were asa result of the guests eating food bought at the local market or on thestreet.
Sarah and two friends - Amanda Eliason and Emma Langlands - became sickin the Downtown Inn in Chiang Mai on February 4. Sarah died in hospitaltwo days later.
Amanda and Emma recovered and are now back in New Zealand.
Richard Carter, Sarah's father, said the press conference was a "fob off".
"It doesn't sound like there's any real investigation going on here.
"You start to wonder how many other deaths there have been that are being swept under the carpet."
Mr Carter said the New Zealand Government needed to put on morepressure to find out how many similar deaths there had been in the lastfew years so travellers could make informed decisions.
"At the moment it's pot luck. People head off on holiday and then 'bang' they're dead."
Foreign Minister Murray McCully said the comments from the pressconference were "not wholly convincing and we intend to give themcloser scrutiny".
"We will look into the matter further. I gather there is still somework being done of a forensic nature of some samples and we are lookingforward to seeing that material too.
"It's clear that we need to ask some more questions."
Asked if the Government would launch its own inquiry Mr McCully said that was too early to consider.
"Let's not get ahead of ourselves, let's just ask the questionsmethodically as we go forward... Clearly the obvious questions need tobe asked and answered fully."
- additional reporting Andrew Drummond, NZPA By Stuart Dye | Email Stuart |
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