Causative organism

• tetrodotoxin

Symptom

• Latency period 30 minutes to 3 hours
• Symptoms Lips, numbness of limbs, headache, abdominal pain, speech disorder etc.
• Remarks The time to death shall be within 8 hours

Source of pollution

• Puffer fish
• Hind flying dragonfly
• Zumghihase
• Boussoubola

Characteristic

• Insoluble in water
• Acid, heat resistant
• It can not be detoxified by cooking etc.

prevention

• Demolition of qualified person of puffer cooker
• I will never do easy handling of amateurs

Summar

• Never dismantle amateurs
• Demolition of a puffer cooker’s license holder
• The lethal dose of a person is about 2 mg
• Puffer poisoning = tetrodotoxin
• 1000 times the virulence of tetrodotoxin = hydrogen cyanide
• Puffer venom can not be detoxified by heat treatment

Remarks

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