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Takifugu in a tank. The fugu (河豚; 鰒; フグ) in Japanese, bogeo (복어; -魚) or bok (복) in Korean, and hétún (河豚; 河魨) in Standard Modern Chinese [a] is a pufferfish, normally of the genus Takifugu, Lagocephalus, or Sphoeroides, or a porcupinefish of the genus Diodon, or a dish prepared from these fish.
Danger to humans [ edit ] Similar to other puffer fishes , the silver-cheeked toadfish is extremely poisonous if eaten because it contains tetrodotoxin in its ovaries and to a lesser extent its skin, muscles and liver, which protects it from voracious predators .
Species of puffer fish (the family Tetraodontidae) are the most poisonous in the world, and the second most poisonous vertebrate after the golden dart frog.The active substance, tetrodotoxin, found in the internal organs and sometimes also the skin, paralyzes the diaphragm muscles of human victims, who can die from suffocation.
Humans have been lucky when it comes to avoiding sizeable meteors and mass die-offs. ... Mixing bleach and ammonia results in the formation of a potentially fatal gas. ... The blowfish, if not ...
Takifugu, also known by the Japanese name fugu (河豚, lit. "river pig"), is a genus of pufferfish with 25 species, most of which are native to salt and brackish waters of the northwest Pacific, but a few species are found in freshwater in Asia or more widely in the Indo-Pacific region.
James Ellroy includes "blowfish toxin" as an ingredient in Haitian Vodou preparations to produce zombieism and poisoning deaths in his dark, disturbing, violent novel Blood's a Rover. But this theory has been questioned by the scientific community since the 1990s based on analytical chemistry -based tests of multiple preparations and review of ...
Fatal human bird flu case in Mexico. In May, authorities in Mexico reported a confirmed human case of H5N2 to global authorities. The patient was the first human to become infected with an avian ...
Porcupinefish are medium-to-large fish belonging to the family Diodontidae from the order Tetraodontiformes [2] which are also commonly called blowfish and, sometimes, balloonfish and globefish. The family includes about 18 species.