Emma Amit, 51 years old, a Filipino food vlogger from Puerto Princesa, a coastal town in Palawan, with more than a thousand followers, has unfortunately died from eating a deadly crustacean, a devil crab. But what exactly is devil crab, and how deadly is it?
Many were saddened by Emma's passing as she is known to her followers for having a very positive aura and jolly personality, as they always see on her videos.
Emma vlogs their life in Palawan and often does a cooking and mukbang video of the seafood they capture. Emma and her husband are both fishfolks in the town.
In a video she posted, Emma can be seen holding a bucket full of seafood they caught, reports said that most of them are devil crabs.
The 51-year-old cooked the seafood, and unfortunately, after consuming it, Emma fell gravely ill, with neighbors reporting that she was convulsing while being transported to a local clinic.
She was later taken to a hospital after her health deteriorated further; Emma's lips reportedly turned dark blue while she was unconscious.
The doctor tried their best to save her, but unfortunately, there was nothing they could do, and she died on 6 February, days after eating shellfish.
PrimeTimerreported that the chief of the village of Luzviminda, Laddy Gemang, dispatched village officials to Emma's home to investigate and discovered the bright shells of the devil crabs on her trash.
'I saw the shells, there were around eight. I don't know if all of them were devil crabs, but they all looked alike,' Gemang said.
According to local officials, the couple was experienced in identifying marine life found in the area.
Source: International Business Times UK
