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Boy, 14, who injected himself with butterfly for online challenge suffered a 7-day slow death

Summary by vt.co
A 14-year-old boy in Brazil suffered for seven days before dying in hospital after injecting himself with a homemade butterfly mixture - a move believed to be linked to a dangerous online challenge.Davi Nunes Moreira died earlier this year in a hospital in Planalto, Brazil, after reportedly mixing water with a dead butterfly and injecting it into his right leg. According to the Daily Mail, authorities say the teen began vomiting and limping befo…
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vt.co broke the news in on Monday, December 29, 2025.
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