[Rick Lee]

I was in Germany in May 2011 when they had the e coli outbreak. I ate at a salad bar right by the farm they eventually traced it back to. And we had eaten salads several times the week before. But I hadn't been listening to the news at all because I was with an American buddy who didn't speak German. My buddy then flew to Paris and I turned on the car radio and heard what was going on. Two days later my buddy texted me from his hospital bed in Pittsburgh, saying he was deathly ill. It can take up to a week for e coli symptoms to develop. I was so scared. But it turned out to be campylobacter and the docs said he probably got it from some raw chicken touching a salad he ate in Paris. He said it was pretty bad, but he got better within a week.