Not All Is Food: Eleven Members Of same Family Hospitalized After Eating Pufferfish

"The fish looked so tasty so we invited the whole family. We fried it and everyone tucked in", said Cristiane Souza who called her extended family living nearby as she thought pufferfish was delicious

A total of eleven members of the same family dined together. They are in a critical condition in hospital after cooking up the world's deadliest fish for dinner.

The pufferfish contains a toxin 1,200 times more lethal than cyanide, a drop of which can kill within 24 hours.

The poison paralyses the muscles while the victim remains fully conscious, eventually dying of asphyxiation when the venom reaches the diaphragm.

The Souza family got the fish from a friend who had returned from a day's sea fishing near their home in Duque de Caxias, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

But seconds after taking their first bite all began to vomit, before losing the feeling in their face, arms and legs.

Cristiane did not eat the fish because according to her "I didn't eat it because I was waiting until everyone had tried it."

The one pufferfish contains toxin tetrodotoxin enough to kill 30 adults and there is no known antidote. 

May they be miraculous healed.

Credit: UK Mirrior