29 kids die from food poisoning

[Neo]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapc...ing/index.html

The vendor who sold the cassava balls insisted nothing was wrong with them and ate a few to prove the point. Now she, too, is in critical condition...

..Eaten raw, the human digestive system will convert part of it into cyanide. Two cassava roots contain enough to be fatal.