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Please find attached our reply to your recent OIA request

 

Kind regards, Eileen

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Eileen Holliday | Personal Assistant to Mark Spittal Executive Director
Community & Clinical Support | Waikato District Health Board |

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From: Graham Carter
[[6]mailto:[FOI #7084 email]]
Sent: Friday, 5 January 2018 1:13
To: OIA Contact
Subject: Official Information request - Poisoned by wild boar meat

 

Dear Waikato District Health Board,

 

The medical notes for the Kochumman family that was poisoned by wild boar
in Putaruru, raise some questions:

(1) 1080 was the number 1 suspect, according to the poisoned patients'
medical notes. The Waikato DHB states that they have tested for 1080.

However the date of the urine test was 18 days after hospitalisation,
which is outside of the time that 1080 is detectable in urine (it is
excreted from urine within seven days of ingestion - See Charles Eason's
Vertebrate Pesticides Toxicology Manual for further details).

(2) None of the meat collected by MPI has been tested for 1080. This was
confirmed in a meeting with the WDHB yesterday. Someone should ask why it
was not tested, when the patients' medical notes say the wild boar meat
should be tested for 1080.

(3) Why did they continue to say it was botulism when they knew early on
that the symptoms didn't fully align?

(4) Why has neither the WDHB nor MPI followed up with the person who
provided the wild boar meat to Shibu's family?

This information is held by the WDHB. It could be a public health risk as
this person has probably supplied meat to others.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Graham Carter

 

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Dear Graham Carter,

 

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Support, I enclose our response to your Official Information Act requests.

 

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Assurance)

Office of the Director-General | Ministerial and Business Support

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