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Chicken safety, personal account
Stricken by chicken? Photography by Ann Schertz WHO Leighton Kunkle, 40, beauty-supply distributor, Perrysville, Ind.What HAPPENED Kunkle suspects that he was infected with campylobacter from undercooked chicken strips he ate at a Phoenix restaurant while on a family vacation in March 2002. “It was lukewarm,” he said. “I was starving, so I really didn’t care. I ate it.” The initial gastrointestinal symptoms were bad, he recalls. Days later, he began to lose feeling in his feet and legs. He was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome, a severe nerve condition, and says he still has problems walking. A lawsuit he filed against the restaurant was settled out of court in April 2006 without admission of liability.
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