Cleaning out a fish tank leaves whole family seriously ill
By Dr Ananya Mandal, MDApril 6, 2018
Chris Matthews and his family of six ended up being seriously ill when they were cleaning out a fish tank at their home. The tank released a deadly poison from a coral when it was handled. The incident occurred last week.
Matthews says more people need to be aware of how dangerous this could be. His family and four firefighters were left ill after the incident last week in Steventon, Oxfordshire. They were moving and clearing out the coral from their aquarium last week when they developed flu-like symptoms and some problems in their eyes. The couple was moving the contents of a fish tank to an aquarium in their bedroom. They had taken a rock covered in coral in the fish tank and rubbed it clean. What they did not realize was that it was a coral and rubbing it let off the deadly poison palytoxin. They shut the door and went to sleep keeping the poison in the air of the bedroom that they were inhaling. They all woke up groggy, breathless, coughing and feeling ill.
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