Matt Jackson was riding an electric bike through France's Bordeaux wine country when he started feeling strange. Nine days later, he's on a breathing machine in a French.
At least 12 people have also been hospitalised and are believed to have contracted botulism after eating sardines at the Tchin Tchin Wine Bar in Bordeaux.
Mr Jackson was among the first of a dozen people who ate preserved sardines in a Bordeaux wine bar last week to be hospitalized with what French authorities believe is the rare and potentially fatal illness.