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Frightful Fish Tale: Doctors Warn of Poison Pufferfish

Image: A pufferfish lies on a chopping board at a Japanese restaurant
A pufferfish, known as fugu in Japan, lies on a chopping board to remove toxic internal organs at a Japanese restaurant \"Torafugu-tei\" in Tokyo. Every year in Japan people end up in hospital after eating pufferfish, and sometimes they die.YOSHIKAZU TSUNO / AFP - Getty Images, file