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최근 데본포트 바닷가(내로우 넥) 에서 죽은 2마리의 개와 관련되어 오클랜드 관련 기관에서 조사한 내용들을 신문에 발표한 것이니 참고바랍니다.

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Beach poison will kill you in an hour
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Experts have added a grim warning to the poison beach scare in Auckland, saying
the toxin that killed dogs is deadly enough to paralyse humans in seconds and ...    

최근 죽은 2마리의 개의 위에서 나온 바다달팽이가 복어가 가지고 있는 치명적인 독인 tetrodotoxin을 함유하고 있는것으로 밝혀졌는데 조사기관에서는 어떻게 이 독이 바다달팽이에 있는것인지를 검사하고 있다.

이 독성물질은 사람이나 동물들의 심장과 폐를  몇분이내에 멈추게 할 수있고 한 시간 이내에 사망에 이르게 할 수 있다.

바닷가 산책을 삼가하고 만일에 바닷가에서 죽은 바다생물들을 만졌다면 즉시 손을 씻어야한다.

오클랜드 근해와 노스쇼어 지역 동해안의 바닷가에는 조사기관들의 검사가 완료되어 안전이 확실해 질때까지 출입을 통제하는 경고판이 계속하여 설치되어 질것이다.

개들이 죽은것은 유감이지만, 이를 통해서 위험을 알게되었고 사람들이 죽지않게 된것은 참으로 다행한 일이다.

조사를 위하여 관련된 8개 기관의 이름은 아래에 있다.

Beach poison will kill you in an hour

Page 1 of 2 View as a single page 4:00AM Monday Aug 17, 2009
By Vaimoana Tapaleao

The warning signs will not be removed until investigating agencies believe <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Auckland's beaches are safe. Photo / Greg Bowker

Related links:

• Puffer fish toxin blamed for deaths of two dogs

• Beaches off-limits to kids after mystery dog deaths

• John Roughan: Dog owners have a new reason to respect beaches

• Fear keeps popular beaches almost bare

Experts have added a grim warning to the poison beach scare in Auckland, saying the toxin that killed dogs is deadly enough to paralyse humans in seconds and kill them within an hour.

Test results have shown that tetrodotoxin, a poison found in puffer fish, is responsible for the deaths of two dogs, birds and sealife on Auckland beaches.

The poison was found in the dead dogs' vomit and in a sea slug sample taken from Narrow Neck Beach on the North Shore.

Further tests are being carried out to find out how the sea slug came to contain the poison.

Touching a dead animal on the beach could be enough to endanger human life, said Cawthron Institute algae specialist Paul McNabb.

He said that warnings for people to keep away from beaches were not extreme, because of the effects the toxins had on humans.

"People can die from this," Mr McNabb said.

"If you put a slug in your mouth, you'd be vomiting and your entire body would be tingling.

"Within minutes you'd be paralysed. Your heart and lungs would shut down and you'd be dead within the hour.

"Or if you touched it and it was all over your hands and you went and ate a sandwich ..."

Mr McNabb said anyone who came down with symptoms including vomiting and drowsiness, after being at a beach, should see a doctor.

But the only way a person would die was if they consumed the poison.

Health authorities were alerted to the problem when several dog owners reported their pets getting sick, vomiting and foaming at the mouth, after walking on an Auckland beach.

Warning signs were soon posted at beaches on the North Shore and in Auckland City after more reports of pets becoming sick and birds and fish washing up dead on beaches.

Up to eight agencies - including health authorities and city councils - have been meeting to examine the test results.

Mr McNabb said it was a sad but thankful thing to have been alerted to the problem following the dogs' deaths.

"It's good that it's happened like this," he said.

"It's sad for the dogs and their owners - but it's better to have it happen this way and we find out from the dogs dying and not from people dying."

Auckland Regional Public Health officials said tests were still being conducted.

Until the investigating agencies were sure it was safe for people and their pets to be on the beaches, the warnings would not be lifted.

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Who is involved?
Auckland Regional Council, MAF Biosecurity, Auckland Regional Public Health Service, Department of Conservation, North Shore City Council, Manukau City Council, Auckland City Council, and Rodney District Council.

Puffer fish toxin blamed for deaths of two dogs
Saturday, August 15, 2009
A poison found in tropical puffer fish, which is potentially fatal to humans,
is to blame for the deaths of two dogs on Auckland beaches. ...

Health warnings remain for Auckland beaches
Friday, August 14, 2009
Analysis of vomit of the dog which died after visiting Narrow Neck Beach showed
it died of tetrodotoxin, a poison found in tropical puffer fish which had also ...

Sea slugs may be victims as well
Friday, August 14, 2009
... to kill. "They've developed the ability over the years to take the poison
out of algae and use it to make them taste bad. They also ...