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Haff disease Haff dis·ease (hŏf), rhabdomyolysis resultant from an unidentified toxin contained in some fish, including turbot and buffalo fish. [Haff, an arm of the Baltic Sea in East Prussia] A condition defined as rhabdomyolysis within 24 hours of ingesting fish. It occurred in ‘epidemic’ waves—1924, 1925, 1940—affecting ±1000 people who lived near Königsberg Bay, Lithuania, and was recently reported in the US—all 6 cases had consumed buffalo fish—Ictiobus cyprinellus
Aetiology Ingestion of fish tainted with cellulose-derived toxic resins and/or arsine from paper-processing plants that discharged waste into Haff waters had been postulated; more recently, an unidentified toxins in eels and fish have been blamedHaff disease (hăf) [First described in persons living along the Konigsberg Haff, a German inlet of the Baltic Sea] A rare syndrome of rhabdomyolysis (muscle breakdown) from eating certain kinds of fish. It is believed to result from ingestion of a marine toxin. |