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  • Men hallucinate after eating fish

    04/21/2006 1:50:02 PM PDT · by Mikey_1962 · 15 replies · 576+ views
    Practical Fishkeeping ^ | 4/21/06 | Mikey_1962
    Two men have suffered terrifying visual and auditory hallucinations after eating a popular local seafish in Mediterranean restaurants. According to a clinical study on the patients, which is due to be published in the journal Clinical Toxicology, the men started seeing and hearing things after contracting a rare form of hallucinogenic poisoning from the Salema fish they were dining on. The species is a popular food fish and is not normally hallucinogenic. Ichthyoallyeinotoxism, or hallucinogenic fish poisoning, is caused by eating the heads or body parts of certain species of herbivorous fish and has previously only been recorded from the...