PMID: 11327512May 1, 2001Paper

Fatal weeverfish sting

Human & Experimental Toxicology
J C BorondoJ L Valverde

Abstract

We report a case of fatal weeverfish sting. An 18-year-old man was stung on the left leg by a weeverfish, which he was attempting to capture while snorkelling off the coast of Majorca (Spain). The man felt intense pain, but managed to swim to his boat where he lost consciousness after boarding rapidly. An hour later, when examined by a doctor, the subject was found to be in cardiorespiratory arrest. Reanimation manoeuvres were unsuccessful. The most import post-mortem findings were in the skin and lungs. A puncture wound, which traversed the greater saphenous vein and was covered by an intense haemorrhagic infiltrate, was observed in the skin. The lungs showed haemorrhagic alveolar oedema.

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