Death rate due to horseshoe crab poisoning: summarization on Thai reports

Problem from eating poisonous seafood can be seen in marine medicine[1-3]. Several marine animals can be toxic. The good examples are fishes[4], mussels[5] and shellfishes[6,7]. Horseshoe crab (Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda) can be poisonous and intoxication due to intake is possible[8]. Horseshoe crab poisoning can be seen in many countries with seacoasts including China and Thailand. In animal model, it seems that adult horseshoe crab is more toxic than the younger one[9]. Liao and Li noted that “the major cause of the poisoning on eating horseshoe crab in south region along the seacoast of China was taking tetrodotoxin from Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda by mistake”[10]. Here, the authors summarized the death rate due horseshoe crab poisoning in Thailand.