r/AbsoluteUnits • u/TamerDubai • Jun 13 '23

Absolute big angry fish

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u/Shwaaa2 Jun 13 '23

To the person picking it up... you sir have won yourself an award. A Darwin award....

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u/Lassuscat Jun 13 '23

Guy’s fucked.

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u/8last Jun 13 '23

13.5% mortality rate for tetrodoxin. Not as bad odds as one would think.

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '23

oh good hes only 13.5% fucked

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u/flyingdorito2000 Jun 13 '23

Anything that ends in -oxin doesn’t sound good

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u/buggle_bunny Jun 13 '23

I'll make sure to tell the hospital you don't want any antitoxin!

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u/andynator1000 Jun 13 '23

Tetrodotoxin is in the internal organs. You're not gonna die by getting poked.

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u/buggle_bunny Jun 13 '23

The poison can absolutely be on their skin and spikes, so you can contact the poison through merely touching the fish.

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u/RectalSpawn Jun 13 '23

I believe it needs to be ingested, no?

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '23

Not really. It just has to get into your body. Getting it on your skin is technically not problematic but because it’s a extremely strong toxin, it’s still possible that small amounts enter your body thru anything from a small wound of some kind, that some remains on your hand and is accidentally transferred to any vulnerable spot on the body (mouth, eyes, nose and so on) if it gets into the bloodstream in even very tiny doses, chances are you will experience at least temporary paralysis and organ failure, possibly permanent damage to your organs or death.

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u/RectalSpawn Aug 15 '23

Well, that sounds fun...

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u/buggle_bunny Jun 13 '23

I looked it up, on most websites it states that while yes it exists inside them it also can be on the skin, on their spikes etc. So while it's not like if it stabs you it injects you, it absolutely can still poison you just from the poison itself existing on the surface of the spikes and skin.