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Salmonella scare
Handling dog treats made teen seriously ill
Gwendolyn Richards, Calgary Herald
Published: Saturday, March 15, 2008
Brandon Jacklin will never handle a dog treat the same way after contracting salmonella from contaminated pork treats that are now the subject of a voluntary national recall.
The 13-year-old lost 15 pounds during his medical ordeal that initially baffled health officials and frightened his family.
Only after an official with the Calgary Health Region recalled a similar contamination problem nine years earlier involving dog treats did the family start to get answers.
Brandon's mother Debbie said the family has often bought the Rollover pork tenders for their two dogs - a Chihuahua and a Chihuahua-Shitzu cross - including two new packages purchased in February.
"The dogs go insane for them. We've used them for years," Jacklin said.
And the family never gave a second thought to how they handled them until Brandon was suddenly afflicted with a high fever, vomiting and severe diarrhea about six weeks ago.
"He couldn't have anything to eat or anything to drink, not even a sip of water," Jacklin said.
As the teen's condition grew steadily worse
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