Botulism ordeal
A North London estate agent, Roy Hayim, has bitter reasons to remember his airline meal aboard an Air France flight from Nice to Heathrow.
An orthodox Jew, he had asked for a kosher meal but when it arrived it smelt bad, so he avoided the meat and ate only a spoon full of rice and peas. That was enough to give him botulism.
The symptoms are similar to a migraine headache, followed by high fever, coma and death in about SO per cent of those afflicted.
Mr Hayim was lucky. He survived, but only after spending weeks on a life-support machine, paralysed from head to foot, unable to speak and unable to see. Nearly two years later he is still struggling to regain his full health.
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Press, 29 July 1989, Page 21
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