[vetvetdoug]

Knoxville, Tennessee....1976-1977 (This is from Memory) Fish bought from a Kroger contained a rare variant of the Cl. botulinum, Type E which is common in Europe but not in the US. Family of four, a University of Tennessee professor and family, dined upon the fish. Three, including the professor died from the botulism poisoning. The last survived because the USAF at McGee Tyson AFB at Alcoa sent a fighter jet to France and back to get the rare Type E antitoxin to be used on the poisoned family. I was a student in the Microbiology department at UT at the time and also a member of the Tenn ANG.

[Eva]

I think that was on the list, but I accidentally deleted it when I was deleting the other types of food poisoning. Sorry.