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==Overview==
==Overview==
'''Haff disease''' is the development of [[rhabdomyolysis]] (swelling and breakdown of [[skeletal muscle]], with a risk of [[acute renal failure|acute kidney failure]]) within 24 hours of ingesting fish.<ref name="Buchholz">{{cite journal |author=Buchholz U, Mouzin E, Dickey R, Moolenaar R, Sass N, Mascola L |title=Haff disease: from the Baltic Sea to the U.S. shore |journal=Emerging Infect. Dis. |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=192–5 |year=2000 |pmid=10756156 |url=http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol6no2/buchholtz.htm}}</ref>
'''Haff disease''' is the development of [[rhabdomyolysis]] (swelling and breakdown of [[skeletal muscle]], with a risk of [[acute renal failure|acute kidney failure]]) within 24 hours of ingesting fish.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Buchholz U, Mouzin E, Dickey R, Moolenaar R, Sass N, Mascola L |title=Haff disease: from the Baltic Sea to the U.S. shore |journal=Emerging Infect. Dis. |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=192–5 |year=2000 |pmid=10756156 |url=http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol6no2/buchholtz.htm}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

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Overview

Haff disease is the development of rhabdomyolysis (swelling and breakdown of skeletal muscle, with a risk of acute kidney failure) within 24 hours of ingesting fish.[1]

References

  1. Buchholz U, Mouzin E, Dickey R, Moolenaar R, Sass N, Mascola L (2000). "Haff disease: from the Baltic Sea to the U.S. shore". Emerging Infect. Dis. 6 (2): 192–5. PMID 10756156.

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