Turtle poisoning

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Toxic marine turtles may cause a type of poisoning about which little is known. However, the cases reported bear witness to its serious nature. While most species may be eaten without fear, in the tropical parts of the Pacific, particularly around the islands of Japan, some turtles may become extremely toxic. 

It can be concluded that ozone acts only very superficially on wet soft tissues. It is not able to penetrate deeply. This is confirmed by studies of Bohr and Mear (j ), who transfused blood of rabbits, poisoned by ozone, into normal rabbits without any harmful effect. These authors also ventilated only one lung of an animal (turtle or rabbit) with air containing ozone without harmful effects on the normal lung. 

The Bluebottle is eaten by other animals, including the loggerhead turtle. The small Bluebottle Fish lives among the tentacles of the Bluebottle and feeds on the tentacles, which are constantly regenerated. Clown Anemone Fish and Yellow-Jack Fish reportedly have a similar relationship and all are nearly immune to the poison from the stinging cells. 

Chelonitoxism is a form of poisoning resulting from consumption of the meat of sea turtles. Its cause is still unknown despite the fad that there are many cases almost every year in the Indo-Paciftc zone (Fussy et al, 2007). 

Polychlorinated dibenzofurans, which occur as impurities in many PCB grades, were identified in the rice oil involved in the Yusho incident, and in the livers of the individuals poisoned by the oil they have recently been reported at the trace level in the fat of seal and turtle [110]. 

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