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E54J476D8W83 in ATLANTA (AP) - beginning may John Meyer stayed in one at the Lake Hotel in Hamburg, Germany. He attended a business conference. He went sailing. And U.S. was one of the few victims in one of the worst food poisoning -Ausbrüche in the recent history of the world.
Meyer went to the hospital a week later with the, what turned out to be a rare and deadly strain of E. coli bacteria , caused thousands of diseases, especially in Germany. He would work the next month in a Massachusetts hospital, most of the time a delirium, you spend while doctors around the clock to save his life.
Meyer is one of the six U.S. cases in connection with the German outbreak and he is the first to talk about his terrible experience, talk talk, the associated press by telephone from his home in Franklin, Massachusetts.
"It was 30 days of hell," said his wife Loreen.
Meyer was in Hamburg, as this city as the epicenter of a food poisoning disaster incurred was, that would be among the most lethal in memory. More than 4,000 people in Germany and other countries fell ill, since the outbreak was detected in may, including several hundred, developed a serious complication that can lead to kidney failure. At least 53 died.
Outbreak was tracked seeds from Egypt ultimately to a batch fenugreek. The seeds, which tastes a bit like burnt sugar, are sometimes used spice in the kitchen as a. Fenugreek sprouts are used in salads.
Meyer believes that he must have been eating fenugreek while attending a business meeting at the Hotel Hamburg. He thinks that the tainted seed or rungs in the fresh fruit and vegetables in a breakfast bar could have been. There is some irony, though this was the case: it is hard to find good products while rushed business trip Meyer had the opportunity, and eat healthy welcomed.
"In this case it went," he said.
Meyer's lawyer, the AP lab results and Government receive reports about in his illness. Massachusetts state health officials also confirmed that he has been infected with the rare German E. coli strain. His doctor at the access point to speak thus dropped Meyer and he would not agree to be photographed.
Some forms of food poisoning can cause symptoms within one day of rotten food, but Meyer said that he felt any negative effects during a six-day European business trip two days later contained in Hamburg and a brief stop in France. He returned home on 13 may feel well.
However, this unique and dangerous E. coli bug takes a week to announce his presence. Meyer was first aware that something about the May 18 was wrong. He was at his desk at senior aerospace that tomorrow as his stomach to hurt began.
At 52, he is a cyclist who every day eats two Greek yogurt. He says he he never had food poisoning, but on this day went home to pain.
By Midafternoon, he was hit with bloody diarrhea and a dawning sense of alarm. "What was it, it wasn't a small thing," said Meyer. His wife Loreen, biology teacher, was until then home and worried. She took him medical center to the nearby Milford regional.
Doctors there saw him quickly but were unable to diagnose it. She recommended follow up the next day with a gastroenterologist and sent him home for the night. But if he the diarrhea accelerated came home. "Every hour, and then steps on the closer," he recalled.
Loreen took him to the hospital, the night and he was admitted.
Although it happened all less than two months ago, Meyer's memory on fuzzy what happens the next few weeks. He had intense stomach pain and his kidneys stopped working. Doctors put on fluids to it to rehydrate him. She treated with different antibiotics and blood with dialysis and other measures be cleaned.
The infection affected his mind. He pointed out, staring at a clock in his hospital room and unable to tell time. "I thought, ' why they have this strange clock here, and why is it set up differently?'"
Meyer said he grew paranoid, believing that his doctors had written him for dead. Doctors not to him had given up, but were at a loss. A test for the most dangerous form of E. coli familiar Americans came back negative. They sent copies of the additional analysis laboratory of with the Centers for disease control and prevention lab in Atlanta.
June confirmed CDC was the German load it.
Around this time, he began to recover. His kidneys were improving. His consciousness returned. More than three weeks later he was moved from intensive care and on 17 June he sent home.
But he was far from normal. He and his wife said his muscles atrophy had, his red blood cells which had become still on the bottom and the lining his colon a layer of dead tissue, not in a position, absorb nutrients. A man who had been a sporty 6-foot-2 and 185 pound up to 162 pounds and able to walk only short distances with a stick. He was hungry, though. Voracious, breakfast, dinner for two, two lunches and two dinners day.
"He had such great appetite, because he still not in the position to absorb so many nutrients,", his wife said.
Now, he is from up to 170 pounds and working days part of your home. He was in physical therapy and regaining his strength, although he removed months of the kind of vigorous exercise that he is going to do.
Meyer and his wife, contacted a local attorney, say, be concerned about possible problems with the get health insurance pay his hospital bills. That is not be a problem. But the lawyer called the pair Bill Marler, Seattle lawyer that the nation's outstanding the plaintiff's lawyer in food poisoning cases.
Marler is looking for the possibility of a dispute with potential targets, including the company that owns the Hotel Hamburg, where Meyer stayed.
He called the Meyers suffered "horrific" and agreed Meyer woman in itself to ensure that he can suffer long-term problems.
For its part, Meyer happiness feels have survived, credited his doctors for his life and his good health and fitness before the disease for him to get away, it helps save.
He said "Many unfortunate people not survive". "It is really a frightening."
Meyer went to the hospital a week later with the, what turned out to be a rare and deadly strain of E. coli bacteria , caused thousands of diseases, especially in Germany. He would work the next month in a Massachusetts hospital, most of the time a delirium, you spend while doctors around the clock to save his life.
Meyer is one of the six U.S. cases in connection with the German outbreak and he is the first to talk about his terrible experience, talk talk, the associated press by telephone from his home in Franklin, Massachusetts.
"It was 30 days of hell," said his wife Loreen.
Meyer was in Hamburg, as this city as the epicenter of a food poisoning disaster incurred was, that would be among the most lethal in memory. More than 4,000 people in Germany and other countries fell ill, since the outbreak was detected in may, including several hundred, developed a serious complication that can lead to kidney failure. At least 53 died.
Outbreak was tracked seeds from Egypt ultimately to a batch fenugreek. The seeds, which tastes a bit like burnt sugar, are sometimes used spice in the kitchen as a. Fenugreek sprouts are used in salads.
Meyer believes that he must have been eating fenugreek while attending a business meeting at the Hotel Hamburg. He thinks that the tainted seed or rungs in the fresh fruit and vegetables in a breakfast bar could have been. There is some irony, though this was the case: it is hard to find good products while rushed business trip Meyer had the opportunity, and eat healthy welcomed.
"In this case it went," he said.
Meyer's lawyer, the AP lab results and Government receive reports about in his illness. Massachusetts state health officials also confirmed that he has been infected with the rare German E. coli strain. His doctor at the access point to speak thus dropped Meyer and he would not agree to be photographed.
Some forms of food poisoning can cause symptoms within one day of rotten food, but Meyer said that he felt any negative effects during a six-day European business trip two days later contained in Hamburg and a brief stop in France. He returned home on 13 may feel well.
However, this unique and dangerous E. coli bug takes a week to announce his presence. Meyer was first aware that something about the May 18 was wrong. He was at his desk at senior aerospace that tomorrow as his stomach to hurt began.
At 52, he is a cyclist who every day eats two Greek yogurt. He says he he never had food poisoning, but on this day went home to pain.
By Midafternoon, he was hit with bloody diarrhea and a dawning sense of alarm. "What was it, it wasn't a small thing," said Meyer. His wife Loreen, biology teacher, was until then home and worried. She took him medical center to the nearby Milford regional.
Doctors there saw him quickly but were unable to diagnose it. She recommended follow up the next day with a gastroenterologist and sent him home for the night. But if he the diarrhea accelerated came home. "Every hour, and then steps on the closer," he recalled.
Loreen took him to the hospital, the night and he was admitted.
Although it happened all less than two months ago, Meyer's memory on fuzzy what happens the next few weeks. He had intense stomach pain and his kidneys stopped working. Doctors put on fluids to it to rehydrate him. She treated with different antibiotics and blood with dialysis and other measures be cleaned.
The infection affected his mind. He pointed out, staring at a clock in his hospital room and unable to tell time. "I thought, ' why they have this strange clock here, and why is it set up differently?'"
Meyer said he grew paranoid, believing that his doctors had written him for dead. Doctors not to him had given up, but were at a loss. A test for the most dangerous form of E. coli familiar Americans came back negative. They sent copies of the additional analysis laboratory of with the Centers for disease control and prevention lab in Atlanta.
June confirmed CDC was the German load it.
Around this time, he began to recover. His kidneys were improving. His consciousness returned. More than three weeks later he was moved from intensive care and on 17 June he sent home.
But he was far from normal. He and his wife said his muscles atrophy had, his red blood cells which had become still on the bottom and the lining his colon a layer of dead tissue, not in a position, absorb nutrients. A man who had been a sporty 6-foot-2 and 185 pound up to 162 pounds and able to walk only short distances with a stick. He was hungry, though. Voracious, breakfast, dinner for two, two lunches and two dinners day.
"He had such great appetite, because he still not in the position to absorb so many nutrients,", his wife said.
Now, he is from up to 170 pounds and working days part of your home. He was in physical therapy and regaining his strength, although he removed months of the kind of vigorous exercise that he is going to do.
Meyer and his wife, contacted a local attorney, say, be concerned about possible problems with the get health insurance pay his hospital bills. That is not be a problem. But the lawyer called the pair Bill Marler, Seattle lawyer that the nation's outstanding the plaintiff's lawyer in food poisoning cases.
Marler is looking for the possibility of a dispute with potential targets, including the company that owns the Hotel Hamburg, where Meyer stayed.
He called the Meyers suffered "horrific" and agreed Meyer woman in itself to ensure that he can suffer long-term problems.
For its part, Meyer happiness feels have survived, credited his doctors for his life and his good health and fitness before the disease for him to get away, it helps save.
He said "Many unfortunate people not survive". "It is really a frightening."
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