11-year old suffers brain damage from KFC chicken with salmonella - suing

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KFC 'chicken twister' causes brain damage, says 11-year-old, suing

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We knew KFC wasn't health food. And we know that our modern, faceless,

efficient corporate food culture leaves us vulnerable to contamination and the

threat of food poisoning. But brain damage?

 

Yes, according to 11-year-old Australian girl Monika Samaan, whose

_lawyers are accusing the fast food chain of selling her family a

salmonella-contaminated chicken twister_

(http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25196456-1242,00.html) (fried chicken in

pita bread), which they say subsequently

caused salmonella encephalopathy and salmonella septicaemia.

 

Monika shared the KFC Chicken Twister with her parents and older brother

in Villawood, a suburb of Sydney, in 2005. They all became ill, but

then-7-year-old Monika collapsed. She was rushed to the hospital and soon she

was

changed utterly from the happy, bright, active girl she was.

 

Now she has spastic quadriplegia and acquired profound intellectual

disability and liver dysfunction, brought on, say her doctors, by a very rare

form of the common salmonella.

 

Her lawyers are making a case that the restaurant had a history of

recklessly unhygienic practices, such as dropping chicken on the floor and then

serving it to customers, and are seeking more than $10 million in damages

from Yum! Brands' Australia unit, which claims it was not responsible for the

salmonella poisoning.

 

Unfortunately for KFC, this comes in the wake of other _Sydney KFC units

being fined AU$73,125_

(http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw-act/finger-lickin-bad-at-kfc/story-e6\

freuzi-1111119117364) for a number of breaches

of food hygiene laws, including not having cleaned fryers for several

months. Few customers of KFC will be impartial, it seems, in the face of really

nasty kitchens.

 

_Source_ (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25196456-1242,00.html)

 

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