Penis anxiety in SG: Anyone old enough to remember this???

Southeast Asia

A koro epidemic struck Singapore in October 1967 for about ten days. Newspapers initially reported that some people developed koro after eating the meat of pigs inoculated with anti-swine-flu vaccine. Rumours relating eating pork and koro spread after a further report of an inoculated pig dying from penile retraction. The cases reported amounted to 97 in a single hospital unit within one day, at five days after the original news report. Government and medical officials alleviated the outbreak only by public announcements over television and in the newspapers


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro_(medicine)

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Didn't realise SG people then were really that suakoo....

The scare was so real then that bak pau sales plummeted and duck pau was hastily introduced.

fukyuman said:

The scare was so real then that bak pau sales plummeted and duck pau was hastily introduced.

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After 1967 when the MIW established themselves in SINgapore, 66.6% of the male population developed permanent "koro", which is best kept secret from the Min, of Health, which explains the extremely low birth rate amongst SINgaporeans; thus prompting them to import 100,000 FT's.