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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Douglas Whitbread & Sam Elliott-Gibbs

Ex-fireman left struggling to walk after catching rare disease on nightmare holiday

A former fireman who caught a rare disease and was left struggling to walk following a trip to Cyprus is suing his travel operator.

Charles Jackson suffered from diarrhoea and fatigue during the getaway with his wife Julie to the Mediterranean island and believed he just had a “24-hour bug”.

But after he returned, the 69-year-old started feeling “pins and needles” in his legs and feet before he later collapsed and needed ten weeks' hospital care.

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