A Toronto woman has been hospitalized in France with a severe case of botulism after eating improperly preserved sardines at a Bordeaux wine bar.
Tchin Tchin Wine Bar, located in Bordeaux's tourist district, served the sardines between Sept. 4 and Sept. 10, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada. At least 15 people were infected with botulism, French health authorities say, including a 32-year-old woman from Paris who succumbed to the illness.
Toronto women Jubilee Pridham and Gabby Chartier are among those who contracted the devastating illness at the restaurant. Both face “a long road to recovery,” according to Pridham’s husband Lowell Sostomi, though Chartier received the antitoxin more quickly than Pridham, making for a more straightforward healing process.
Pridham, Chartier and Chartier’s mother attended the restaurant on Sept. 9, the first day of a “much-anticipated” trip to France and Spain,“She called me right after she ate at the restaurant, and she told me, ‘we just had the weirdest fish dish, and you’d have hated it,’” said Sostomi. He says Pridham’s passion is food and wine, which made the trip to Europe all the more exciting for her.
Pridham, a general manager at Toronto restaurant Piano Piano, did not receive the botulism antitoxin until she had been exposed for 72 hours. Most people, when treated within a 96-hour window of exposure, have a vetter chance of full recovery.
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