| [survey of food poisoning incidents in japan due to ingestion of marine boxfish and their toxicity]. | from 1990 to 2008, 9 food poisoning incidents due to ingestion of marine boxfish occurred in nagasaki, miyazaki, mie and kagoshima prefectures, japan, and a total of 13 persons were poisoned. their main symptom was severe muscle pain arising from rhabdomyolysis, which was usually accompanied by the discharge of black urine and abnormal elevation of serum creatine phosphokinase. twelve out of the 13 victims recovered in a few days to two months, while one died after approximately 2 weeks. since t ... | 2009 | 19897955 |