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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. [40] In February 2009, a Malaysian fisherman died and four others were hospitalised after they consumed a meal ...
From 2006 through 2009 in Japan there were 119 incidents involving 183 people but only seven people died. [65] Only a few cases have been reported in the United States, and outbreaks in countries outside the Indo-Pacific area are rare. In Haiti, tetrodotoxin was thought to have been used in voodoo preparations, in so-called zombie poisons ...
The Death Valley Pupfish is a small, silvery colored fish with 6–9 vertical dark bands on its sides. It has an average length of 3.7 cm (1.5 in), with a recorded maximum of 7.8 cm (3.1 in). [3] The males, often appearing in larger sizes compared to females, turn bright blue during mating season, April through October.
It was discovered in 2002 in Xincun, Hainan from four specimens. It is a demersal species that reaches 11 cm (4.3 inches). [3] It is capable of inflating its abdomens with water when frightened or disturbed and are capable of producing and accumulating toxins such as tetrodotoxin and saxitoxin in the skin, gonads, and liver like other species ...
The species is known from the Sea of Japan, East China Sea and Yellow Sea north to southern Sakhalin, at depths of 10–135 m (33–443 ft).It is a demersal species. . Spawning occurs in estuaries; young fish can tolerate a wide range of salinities and will remain in river mouths and lagoons, maturing for one year before migrating permanently to the ope
The northern puffer, Sphoeroides spheroides, 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.
A group of kayakers and snorkelers found an extremely rare deep-sea fish nicknamed a "doomsday fish" off the coast of Southern California last weekend. On Saturday, Aug. 10, the group encountered ...
Prognosis. Risk of death ~ 0.1% [2] Frequency. c. 50,000 per year [2] Ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP), also known as ciguatera, is a foodborne illness caused by eating reef fish contaminated with ciguatoxins. [4][2] Such individual fish are said to be ciguatoxic. Symptoms may include diarrhea, vomiting, numbness, itchiness, sensitivity to hot ...