A married couple from Germany were left paralyzed and fighting for their lives in intensive care for about 5 months. They fell ill after eating home-canned green beans.
The 47-year-old woman and her 51-year-old husband were diagnosed with botulism — a rare but possibly life-threatening bacterial illness caused by a powerful toxin which can leave the body in a vegetative state — after eating the green beans, according to the Journal of Medical Case Reports.
