[Sg] - 'I didn’t want to live anymore': 2015 raw fish bacteria outbreak, including Singaporean man who kena both hands and both legs amputated away

[UltimaOnline]

It's been 10 years since a 2015 outbreak of the highly infectious Group B Streptococcus (GBS) bacteria swept through Singapore.

Over 160 people suffered blood poisoning after eating dishes containing raw freshwater fish. Two people, including a 22-year-old man, died.

Raw ready-to-eat fish has since been banned in Singapore, and for most, the outbreak is at best a hazy memory — a barely remembered headline.

But two men, Tan Whee Boon and Sim Tharn Chun, are still living with the consequences every day of their lives.

Tan, 59, lost all his limbs due to complications from the infection.

Sim, 62, was left permanently deaf after the bacteria attacked his brain.


https://mothership.sg/2025/11/gbs-survivors-2015/

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

These ppl are mental. Eat uncooked fish! Fucking hell

 

[Yuletide]

These ppl are mental. Eat uncooked fish! Fucking hell

They think lime juice can kill bacteria. Silly.

 

[UltimaOnline]

These ppl are mental. Eat uncooked fish! Fucking hell

 

[laksaboy]

Why don't these handless people do this to enhance the quality of their life?

Life is too short to have stumps on your arms.

 

[glockman]

Cooked food is the best. If eating raw meats is so fantastic, why did the cavemen rejoice when they discovered fire?

 

[glockman]

We should never eat raw freshwater creatures. For these men, how hard is it to start a fire? Siow lang.

 

[syed putra]

These ppl are mental. Eat uncooked fish! Fucking hell

Cockles too. Never cook. Just put on the hot kuay teow. That is why gastric, hepatitis rampant. Now this new year yee sang is always a risk if i participate.

 

[Truthspeak]

These ppl are mental. Eat uncooked fish! Fucking hell

No, they are stupid. As you know most Singaporeans are stupid, got poisoned don’t know how to cure themselves and end up getting amputated because of their own stupidity

 

[face the facts]

Cooked food is the best. If eating raw meats is so fantastic, why did the cavemen rejoice when they discovered fire?

fucking spot on!!!!!

 

[face the facts]

Cooked food is the best. If eating raw meats is so fantastic, why did the cavemen rejoice when they discovered fire?

they rejoice because they can burn a few more PAP politicians......