Summary 1. A total of fifty-seven people became poisoned after eating a poisonous cooked eel of whom seventeen were hospitalized. 2. Of the seventeen patients, eleven were admitted in coma, and of the remaining six, three became comatose after a few hours of hospitalization. 3. Treatment was symptomatic, and their symptoms provided a major nursing problem. 4. Of the seventeen, two died and one required a tracheotomy as a result of vocal cord steonosis following intubation.