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Suicide of a man with known allergy to fish protein by ingesting tinned fish
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review - 19.06.2012
Sterzik Vera, Drendel Vanessa, Will Michael, Bohnert Michael
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On a day in November, the body of a 31-year-old man was found near a swimming lake with two open and partly emptied fish tins lying next to him. Further investigations showed that the man had been allergic to fish protein and suffered from severe depression and drug psychosis. Already some days before the suicide, he had repeatedly asked for fish to kill himself. Although the results of the chemical and toxicological examinations were negative, the autopsy findings and histological tests suggest that death was caused by an anaphylactic reaction.