Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1984, Melvin Ferd Junko III was living a lackluster life as a janitor at a Tromaville health club when he unwittingly became ...

A delicacy in Japanese cuisine, puffer fish (fugu) also contain a lethal toxin. Improperly prepared puffer fish can cause the person eating it to experience food poisoning and a swift death. Such a ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago man was sentenced Monday to more than 7½ years in prison for obtaining a deadly puffer-fish toxin to deploy as a weapon, which federal authorities once accused ...

Almost 30 cases of ciguatera fish poisoning have been recorded so far this year in Vanuatu. The 27 patients range in age from 6 to 67 years old with the majority aged 35 and older. More men than women ...

A couple and their nephew died after eating cooked puffer fish in Kawayan, Masbate The fish was reportedly caught accidentally by a local fisherman Victims showed symptoms of poisoning, including ...

A new study finds that puffer fish use non-toxic analogs of their famous defense poison for signalling and communication through smell, with implications for the study of their spawning and ...