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Elderly Woman in Johor Dies After Eating Puffer Fish, Husband in ICU
Channel New Asia ^ | 29 Mar 2023

Posted on 03/29/2023 12:06:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway

An 83-year-old woman in Kluang, Johor has died after eating puffer fish while her husband is still being treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

According to state news agency Bernama, Johor Health and Unity Committee chairman Ling Tian Soon in a statement on Tuesday (Mar 28) said that the couple had bought the fish from an online seller on Facebook.

He said that it was the couple’s first time consuming puffer fish.

(Excerpt) Read more at channelnewsasia.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: dontpetthebison; fugu; malaysia; pufferfish
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To: nickcarraway

Yep

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075865/


21 posted on 03/29/2023 12:20:43 PM PDT by fretzer
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To: Captain Compassion

“Online puffer fish? What could possibly go wrong.”

Worse than gas statipn sushi.


22 posted on 03/29/2023 12:21:10 PM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
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So she ate the pufferfish and her husband in the ICU? That would kill her, all right.
23 posted on 03/29/2023 12:22:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: nickcarraway

Tetrodotoxin.


24 posted on 03/29/2023 12:22:22 PM PDT by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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To: nickcarraway

democrats?


25 posted on 03/29/2023 12:25:21 PM PDT by oil_dude
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To: BBQToadRibs2

yeah i was kidding about eating it whole— eating puffer fish is very risky even when the chef is skilled- accidents can and do happen-


26 posted on 03/29/2023 12:25:49 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: uranium penguin

yeah that is an important issue- i woudl imagine it’s kinda like novice mushroom collectors vs experienced- it can be deadly if not doen right


27 posted on 03/29/2023 12:26:49 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Captain Compassion

comes from china, preserved in antifreeze


28 posted on 03/29/2023 12:32:26 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Captain Compassion
But the instructions were so simple!:


29 posted on 03/29/2023 12:32:56 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: nickcarraway

Bkmk


30 posted on 03/29/2023 12:47:22 PM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy thmkeorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Boogieman

It kind of seems like it might not be worth the trouble. 🤔


31 posted on 03/29/2023 12:47:52 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: circlecity
Correct. They are called fugu in Japanese.

My office colleagues invited me out a time or three to dine, assuring me that the place we would be going were experts in the preparation of fugu.

I politely declined telling them that playing Russian Roulette just wasn't my thing even if the pistol had 100 or more chambers.

32 posted on 03/29/2023 12:53:28 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: nickcarraway
Even the adjudicator in John Wick liked a little blow now and then.


33 posted on 03/29/2023 1:00:02 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: nickcarraway

If this was their first time could be a simple allergic reaction. My dad’s first (and only) time I wound up taking him to the emergency room because he was getting to the point he could hardly breath due to swelling in the neck.


34 posted on 03/29/2023 1:10:45 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: circlecity

This fish is EXTREMELY poisonous if not prepared by an expert, what the hell were they thinking!!


35 posted on 03/29/2023 1:14:30 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Vigilanteman

When I was in Japan a friend of mine tried to get me to try some. My logic was that there are 4 possible outcomes, and none of them are really good.

1) I don’t like it and I die - very bad
2) I like and I die - pretty much just as bad
3) I don’t like it and I live - better, but not great
4) I like it and I live.

#4 seems good - but it would just tempt me to try it again something and possibly end up back at #2.

So in the end - no good outcome at all.


36 posted on 03/29/2023 1:19:55 PM PDT by sipow
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To: nickcarraway

Just when I had my heart set on some gas station fugu....


37 posted on 03/29/2023 1:21:33 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Bob434

And don’t eat any sushi from a gas station vending machine.


38 posted on 03/29/2023 1:21:46 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (From here on out, transmission fluid will be referred to as Gender Neutral Shift Juice)
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To: nickcarraway

Hmm . . . reminds me of the Columbo episode “Murder Under Glass”.


39 posted on 03/29/2023 1:22:56 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: circlecity

I tried to convince my wife that puffer fish were cigarette smoking fish that were full of tobacco carcinogens that would kill you if you ate it. That or “puffer” alluded to them being gay and therefore full of the AIDS virus. She almost bought it.


40 posted on 03/29/2023 1:34:29 PM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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