DW: We've come a long way from snorting Nerds...
You have to keep an eye out for danger when raising a teenager, but injecting butterflies hasn’t been on the list until now. A 14-year-old boy in Brazil started throwing up and limping and told his dad he had hurt himself playing. As he got worse, he finally confessed that he had mixed a dead butterfly in water and injected it into his leg. He was admitted to the hospital and was transferred to a larger facility where he lost his battle.
It's a headline story in Brazil, and so far no official cause of death has been determined. While authorities are waiting on the results of an autopsy, they haven’t ruled out the possibility that he was taking part in some type of social media challenge.
Source: NY Post