Inuk woman's tell-tale botulism symptoms would have been taken seriously if she'd been white, says her widower

A man from Inukjuak said the failure of a nurse stationed in the northern Quebec community to recognize the signs of botulism cost his wife her life, and it was only after she died that clinic staff took his adult daughter's symptoms seriously.

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