A Brazilian teenager has reportedly died after spending seven agonizing days suffering in a hospital as a result of injecting himself with crushed butterfly remains.
The 14-year-old boy died in a hospital in Planalto, Brazil, last week after admitting that he had injected his leg with crushed butterfly remains mixed with water, according to a report by Daily Mail.
The teen, Davi Nunes Moreira, had reportedly been throwing up and limping before his father took him to Vitória da Conquista general hospital, where the boy suffered excruciating pain for the week leading up to his death.
Doctors say Moreira’s cause of death may have been the result of an allergic reaction or infection caused by the insect’s toxins.
“It could have been an embolism, an infection, or
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