Thursday, December 23, 2010

Q: Eating of which meat may cause Rhabdomyolysis?


Answer: Quail

Rhabdomyolysis after consuming quail meat is called "coturnism" (after Coturnix, the main quail genus). Migrating quail consume large amounts of hemlock, which contains the poisonous alkaloid coniine. Coniine may cause rhabdomyolysis.

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