Thread: People very sick after eating wild pig

Originally Posted by Tahr

There is a big difference between sensibly seeking a second opinion from professionals or pushing your Dr for more information to what has been the main topic of this thread.

This thread seems to have been about second guessing with a paucity of information and no or little medical expertise, and building conspiracies out of nothing. There is an element of wishful thinking too...that the illness was somehow linked to poison residue.

I am a professional in my field (IT) and a lot of my work involves troubleshooting.

So from that point of view two things stood out too me:
- the doctors are not seeking tests outside of botulism
- the tests are taking up to a month

Sure some people are talking up the 1080 aspect and that is tin foil hat stuff. But lets get away from the hunting conspiracies, what if this was a case of poisoning where the husband found out his missus was cheating and dumped a sachet full of rat poison in their food in a murder/suicide setup? It's not unheard of in that ethnic group for such radical actions. It just seems very narrow minded to follow one potential answer.