Elderly woman dies, husband in ICU after eating puffer fish
Police have classified the death of an 83-year-old woman in Johor as food poisoning caused by puffer fish. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, March 28, 2023.
Johor Health and Unity Committee chairman Ling Tian Soon said the 83-year-old woman started showing symptoms of shortness of breath and shivering before being followed by her husband an hour later with the same symptoms, at about 3pm after eating the fish at noon. “The case is classified as food poisoning caused by puffer fish. In fact, the ‘cause of death’ is given as ‘food poisoning with neurological manifestation resulting in respiratory failure with cardiac dysrhythmia possibly due to ciguatera toxin or tetradotoxin ingestion’, from the puffer fish,” he said in a statement tonight.
He said that until now, no new report has been received regarding the case and all the fish sold on Saturday had already been taken by the district health office concerned for analysis.
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