Elderly woman dies, husband in ICU after eating puffer fish

JOHOR BARU: A woman has died while her husband is being treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), after they ate the puffer fish on Saturday.

Johor Health and Unity Committee chairman Ling Tian Soon said at 3pm, some three hours after eating the fish, the 83-year-old woman started showing symptoms of shortness of breath and shivering. Her husband also experienced the same symptoms about one hour later.

"The couple were then taken to the Enche' Besar Hajjah Khalsom Hospital, Kluang by their children who live separately before the woman was pronounced dead at 7pm, the same day.