A New Zealand family may be in a vegetative state for the rest of their lives after eating contaminated wild boar meat.
Shibu Kochummen, his wife Subi Babu and his mother Alekutty Daniel were found unconscious in their home by paramedics on Friday, the NZ Herald reports.
The trio are believed to have suffered food poisoning from eating a wild boar, which was killed on a hunting trip.
The wild boar meat was the only thing Kochummen and Babu's young children did not eat at dinner.
"The neighbours told me within 30 minutes of eating their meal. They were throwing up at 15 minute intervals," friend Joji Varghese said.
"Shibu rang (emergency number) 111 and fainted through the conversation."
Varghese said he found out his friend was in hospital when he did not show up to his son's baptism the next day.
They are now largely unresponsive and slipping in and out of consciousness at Waikato Hospital in Hamilton.
"These were extremely active, full of life people and all of the sudden, nothing."
It may take two months for the poison to clear their bodies, however they may be paralysed for life if they regain consciousness.
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