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Fugu had been banned in Thailand five years prior to the deaths. [40] In March 2008, a fisherman in the Philippines died and members of his family became ill from pufferfish. The previous year, four people in the same town died and five others had fallen ill after eating the same variety of pufferfish. [41]
The organs (e.g., liver) of the pufferfish can contain levels of tetrodotoxin sufficient to produce the described paralysis of the diaphragm and corresponding death due to respiratory failure. [51] Toxicity varies between species and at different seasons and geographic localities, and the flesh of many pufferfish may not be dangerously toxic. [5]
Deaths in November 2008; Deaths in December 2008 * List of people executed in the United States in 2008; K. List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United ...
In addition, ingestion of saxitoxin-containing mackerel has been implicated in the death of humpback whales. [ 12 ] Additional cases where PSP was suspected as the cause of death in Mediterranean monk seals ( Monachus monachus ) in the Mediterranean Sea [ 13 ] have been questioned due to lack of additional testing to rule out other causes of ...
An ongoing investigation into a "distressing" mass fish death in a nature reserve's lake has shown it was not caused by sewage. Jubilee Lake, at Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, had dead fish ...
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The northern puffer, Sphoeroides maculatus, is a species in the family Tetraodontidae, or pufferfishes, found along the Atlantic coast of North America. [2] Unlike many other pufferfish species, the flesh of the northern puffer is not poisonous, although its viscera can contain poison, [1] [2] and high concentrations of toxins have been observed in the skin of Floridian populations.
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