Husband in ICU, wife dies after eating ‘deadly’ puffer fish

Woman dies, husband in ICU after eating ‘deadly’ puffer fish.

An 83-year-old Malaysian woman died and her 84-year-old husband is fighting for his life in the hospital after they ate puffer fish last week, according to a news report.

The couple’s daughter, Ng Ai Lee, said her father purchased the puffer fish — a delicacy known to contain extremely potent poisons — from a local fish shop on March 25.

“My parents have been buying fish from the same fishmonger for many years, so my father did not think twice about it,” Lee told the Star.

“He would not have knowingly bought something so deadly to eat and put their lives in danger.”

Ling Tian Soon — the health and unity committee chairman for Johor, in southern Malaysia — said shortly after the couple cleaned and cooked the fish for lunch, Lim Siew Guan began to shiver and experience breathing difficulties.

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