A parent’s nightmare: criminal investigation into infant death ruled natural, due to acute salmonellosis

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This is tragic stuff. Five month old Tyler Wilson dies from salmonellosis and parents also deal with the added nightmare of a public inquest. These are the real names and faces of food safety.

Lindsey Wilson and Tim Lees suffered every parents’ worst nightmare after discovering five-month-old Tyler Wilson unresponsive.

Tyler suffered no symptoms but on the morning of November 25, 2014, he was discovered unresponsive by mum Lindsey as she was changing his nappy.

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Tyler Wilson, five months, who died of a salmonella infection

The panic-stricken parents ran out of their home in Ventnor Street, off Newland Avenue in west Hull, screaming for help.

 

At a Hull inquest on Wednesday, senior coroner Professor Paul Marks ruled Tyler died of natural causes.

The ruling concludes more than two years of hell for the couple who were the subject of a criminal investigation.

 

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Dr. Ben Chapman is a professor and food safety extension specialist at North Carolina State University. As a teenager, a Saturday afternoon viewing of the classic cable movie, Outbreak, sparked his interest in pathogens and public health. With the goal of less foodborne illness, his group designs, implements, and evaluates food safety strategies, messages, and media from farm-to-fork. Through reality-based research, Chapman investigates behaviors and creates interventions aimed at amateur and professional food handlers, managers, and organizational decision-makers; the gate keepers of safe food. Ben co-hosts a biweekly podcast called Food Safety Talk and tries to further engage folks online through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and, maybe not surprisingly, Pinterest. Follow on Twitter @benjaminchapman.