New Zealand Family in the Hospital After Eating Wild Boar Meat

New Zealand Family in the Hospital After Eating Wild Boar Meat
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Three members of a family in Putaruru, New Zealand, are unable to move, and could possibly be paralyzed for life, after eating wild boar meat.

Thirty-five-year-old Shibu Kochummen brought the boar home after a hunting trip that day, and he, his 32-year-old wife Subi Babu, and his 62-year-old mother, Alekutty Daniel, ate it for dinner. They began to suffer about half an hour after they started eating.

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