'We have been throwing up for 8 hours': Couple who died in Fiji emailed relatives

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In emails to their relatives, a Texas couple on a dream trip to Fiji complained of being violently ill but offered no indication they were worried the mystery ailment that afflicted them would take their lives.

Michelle and David Paul died two days apart after arriving in Fiji on May 22 and becoming gravely ill soon after.

Emails obtained by ABC News from relatives shed light on the couple's deteriorating conditions and the treatment they were offered by doctors at a local clinic. After returning to their hotel, Michelle Paul wrote another email to her mother, giving her an update on the treatment they received at the clinic.

Five people, including medical staff who came in close contact with the couple at the clinic where they were treated and both died, have been quarantined and are being monitored at a hospital in Nadi, Fiji, as a precaution.Medical staff at the Nadi Hospital told ABC News that relatives of the five people under observation are not being allowed to visit them.

 

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Also look into where they were prior to arrival in Fiji

This has all the marks of a poisoning. I wonder who they worked for and who might have wanted bad things to happen to them.

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