The new work has examined 292 cases registered in the last seven years in one of top 25 hospitals from Spain, the San Carlos Clinic in Madrid. Researchers have only found burundanga in one of these events, 0.3% of the total. His team has just participated in one of the largest studies to date, a review of almost 300 suspected cases of “chemical submission”: people who came to the ER and reported possible exposure to substances that altered their will and facilitated a robbery or a sex crime. “It seems that it has a touch of mystery that is better in the headline, because sometimes we have insisted on explaining that we do not see burundanga, but they say that there is,” laments Bravo, head of the Chemistry Service of the National Institute of Toxicology and Sciences Forensics (INTCF), the main reference center for analyzing samples sent by Spanish hospitals. To the pharmacist Begona Bravo he is puzzled by the fascination with the burundanga of some media.
