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Chile-Fisher suffered poisoning after eating snails with red tide

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http://www.laprensaaustral.cl/croni...ion-tras-consumir-caracoles-con-marea-ro-5205
Spanish to English translation

Fisher suffered poisoning after eating snails with red tide

by Mario Andrade Alarcon | mandrade@laprensaaustral.cl | September 17, 2011

Juan Velasquez, a fisherman of 35 years, was yesterday morning a red tide poisoning after eating snails without analyzing and Jerome extracted from the channel at the mouth of Otway, enclosed area for extraction by the regional ministerial secretary Health.The fisherman attended close to 12 hours Hospital, with numbness around the mouth, limbs and body in general. The shift manager of the Emergency Department medical center, Jorge Bardisa, said the patient is without constraint life-threatening respiratory or, despite what must remain hospitalized in the Department of Medicine until Tuesday. The doctor called not to consume shellfish from areas not authorized by the Ministry of Health, also remember that the product must be analyzed by the health authority. In turn, called to avoid excesses in food and alcohol, in order to avoid poisoning. To Hospital officials went Epidemiology Unit SEREMI Health where they met the fisherman, who said they had consumed snails around ten o'clock, the first symptoms at noon. The fisherman said that another co-extracted as snails task to take them home. Both were working at the site of the Luga, why professionals came into contact with the latter family, who said that only one of its members consume the product without symptoms, and the rest of the seafood removed. The last poisoning was recorded in September last year, affecting at that time also a fisherman. You have to record that from 1972 to date 339 have been poisoned by red tide, of which 23 have died.
 
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