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Pufferfish harbor lethal toxins lacking an antidote

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Dining on fugu is essentially playing culinary Russian roulette. The pufferfish is saturated with tetrodotoxin, a paralyzing agent that is roughly a thousand times more deadly than cyanide. Worse still, modern science has absolutely zero antidote for it. If the chef makes a single microscopic error during preparation, your extremely expensive dinner will be your permanent finale.

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