We are used to eating fish believing that it is a healthy and nutritious food, particularly for our brain, but in truth there are many pathologies that can be caused by ingesting these animals.
Obviously, in most cases, it is possible to remedy this, killing fish for example through cold temperatures before sale or by limiting fishing in those areas of the world where pollution has poisoned their meat. However, there are terrible diseases that cannot be remedied and whose triggering cause is still shrouded in mystery.
Among these, one of the most serious is the Haff’s diseasea pathology that causes rhabdomyolysis following ingestion of fish. Rhabdomyolysis is the gswelling and breakdown of skeletal muscleswhich not only leads people to suffer terrible pain and lose tone, but also to die of acute renal failure within 24 hours.
The first case of Haff’s disease was described in 1924, in people living near the Vistula lagoon, near Kaliningrad, on the Russian Baltic coast. At the time this area was under the dominion of Germany and for about ten years 1000 people ended up in hospital or died in atrocious suffering after eating a fish-based meal.
The species ingested by the victims were also quite common in other parts of Europe (eel, pike and burbot), so it was immediately understood that it was not a problem linked to the animals themselves, but to the context in which they had grown up.
During the Second World WarSporadic cases of Haff’s disease have been reported throughout Europe, but the most serious case occurred much later, in 1997, when 6 people died in California and Missouri after consuming buffalo fish (Ictiobus cyprinellus).
In 2010, numerous other cases occurred in China, specifically in Nanjing, while the following year a family from New York suffered the effects of this pathology, miraculously surviving.
Unfortunately, science has not yet understood what caused rhabdomyolysis in all these cases, but it is suspected that some poison that the fish ingested and which has not yet been identified caused this problem.
If this were indeed the case, it is probably the poison molecule that causes this pathology it is not inactivated by heat, since the people who died in the last century all ate fish that had been first killed and then cooked over a flame. For this particular reason, doctors advise all sensitive individuals not to consume fish that is not farmed.
Furthermore, Haff’s disease is not even among the most lethal diseases caused by the ingestion of fish. As many Japanese know, ingesting some pufferfish glands can cause even more horrific deaths.
In the Mediterranean, however, there is a fish whose head contains hallucinogenic molecules. This species is the Sarpa sets sailwhich the ancient Romans used to get high.
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