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Deadly fish 'with poison 1,200 times deadlier than cyanide' found washed up on Brit beach 
By Charles Wade-Palmer UK Source: dailystar 11/24/2022
Charles Wade-Palmer
Credit: Constance Morris/Pen News
A deadly fish loaded with poison up to 1,200 times more deadly than cyanide has been found on a British beach.

Marine animal investigator Constance Morris was on a family holiday to Newquay, Cornwall, but work followed her to Towan Beach where she knew instantly that something unusual had washed up.
 

She approached a fish being pecked at by seagulls and swiftly clocked it was an oceanic puffer, which according to National Geographic, contains tetrodotoxin, up to 1,200 times more toxic than cyanide.
It’s thought one fish can carry enough to kill 30 adult humans and there is no known antidote.

 
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