Ten people on the French Island of Réunion sickened with pufferfish poisoning are released from hospital
Ten people who were sickened and hospitalized from tetrodotoxin poisoning after consuming pufferfish, or fugu two weeks ago have been released from the hospital, according to the Regional Health Agency, Indian More...
Public advised to avoid puffer fish as another suspected case is reported in Hong Kong
Public domain photo/Jh12 via wikimedia commons In a follow-up to a story last Friday, the Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health is advising the public not to eat puffer fish as More...
Another suspected puffer fish poisoning case reported from Hong Kong
Hong Kong Image/CIA Just a little over two weeks after Hong Kong health officials reported a case of puffer fish poisoning in a 32-year-old man on Dec. 3, the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) is warning the More...
Palestinians may exhume Yasser Arafat’s body to test for radiation poisoning
The Palestinian president cleared the way Wednesday for a possible autopsy on Yasser Arafat’s remains, following a request from his widow after a Swiss lab said it found elevated levels of a lethal radioactive More...
Thai doctor says Canadian sisters may have died after eating fugu
After the preliminary exam of the two Canadian sisters who died in their hotel room in Phi Phi, a Thailand physician suspects the women may contracted a fatal case of food poisoning from either toxic mushrooms More...
