Health officials in Colorado are warning Americans to properly refrigerate and heat their food after an exchange worker was paralyzed by a deadly bacteria.
Claudia de Albuquerque Celada, 23, is in hospital on a ventilator after contracting botulism, a rare food-borne pathogen that attacks the body’s nerves.
Local health officials traced the Brazilian native’s infection back to a pre-packaged soup she bought ‘from a major retailer’ while working in Aspen in February.
Tests of soup samples from the same grocery store came back negative – leading officials to believe the way Ms Albuquerque Celada stored or cooked it was the issue.
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