On Monday, 4 people from Da Nang’s Lien Chieu District were admitted to   the Da Nang General Hospital’s Emergency and Recovery Department after eating toxic puffer fish.  They were 50-year-old Dang Van Dung, 38-year-old Luong Xuan Ha, 48-year-old Pham Thi Phu Hoa, and 50-year-old Dang Anh Hung.  This is the second puffer fish poisoning case to have been recorded at the Department since the beginning of this year.

The patients suffered from deep comas, apnea, nausea, vomiting, body numbness and severe headaches, all caused by the tetrodotoxin found in puffer fish.  The hospital’s doctors pumped activated charcoal into the patients’ stomachs to absorb any residual toxins along their intestinal walls.

Mrs Ha and Mrs Hoa were discharged from hospital on Tuesday, whilst Mr Dung and Hung are out of danger and are now being treated at the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases.