News tagged with food poisoning
Study shows preschoolers affected by medication-related poisonings at alarming rate
Poisonings in young children have increased over the past decade, mainly due to medications in the home. A new study led by the Central Ohio Poison Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital, found that medication-related poisonings ...
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May 16, 2013 |
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Food poisonings up from raw milk, poultry bacteria
(AP)—Health officials are seeing more food poisonings caused by a bacteria commonly linked to raw milk and poultry.
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Apr 18, 2013 |
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Fla. company supplied organs in rabies case
(AP)—An official at an organ donation service in Florida says it was the supplier of transplanted organs from a man who later was found to have died of rabies.
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Mar 18, 2013 |
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Researchers trick bacteria to deliver a safer vaccine
(Medical Xpress)—Vaccines that employ weakened but live pathogens to trigger immune responses have inherent safety issues but Yale researchers have developed a new trick to circumvent the problem—using ...
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Mar 13, 2013 |
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Nigeria first lady describes mystery illness
(AP)—Nigeria's first lady has described details of a mystery illness she had that the country's presidency refused to discuss.
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Feb 18, 2013 |
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Study says leafy greens top food poisoning source
(AP)—A government study has fingered leafy green vegetables as the leading source of food poisoning illnesses.
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Jan 29, 2013 |
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Researchers identify nerves associated with ciguatera, deadly tropical disease
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers from The University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) have identified the nerves involved in the painful tropical disease called ciguatera.
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Dec 11, 2012 |
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New tests could hamper food outbreak detection
It's about to get faster and easier to diagnose food poisoning. But there's a downside: It could make it harder to spot and solve dangerous outbreaks.
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Dec 11, 2012 |
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E. coli adapts to colonize plants
New research from the Institute of Food Research has given new clues as to how some E. coli strains, normally at home in mammalian gastrointestinal tracts, have adopted slightly different transmission strategies, with some b ...
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Oct 30, 2012 |
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NM company linked to illness expands peanut recall
(AP)—A New Mexico food company that produced the peanut butter linked to an outbreak of salmonella poisoning has expanded an ongoing recall of its products to include raw and roasted peanuts.
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Oct 14, 2012 |
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Suspected vomiting virus sickens 4,000 German kids
(AP)—German health authorities say at least 4,000 children have fallen ill with vomiting and diarrhea after eating food from school canteens and daycare centers.
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Sep 28, 2012 |
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Reaching youth: Facebook used to teach food safety
(Medical Xpress)—New research from the University of Georgia published in the August issue of the Journal of Food Protection found that the social networking platform Facebook is good for more than keeping up with friend ...
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Sep 11, 2012 |
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US finds lead poisoning from Ayurvedic medicines
US health researchers said Thursday that they have documented lead poisoning risks among pregnant women who took Ayurvedic medicine and issued a new warning on the safety of traditional pills.
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Aug 23, 2012 |
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Copper kills harmful bacteria, researchers find
(Medical Xpress) -- Each year a tiny, rod-shaped species of bacteria with a fondness for proliferating on human food causes numerous cases of food poisoning around the world, sometimes leading to severe illness ...
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Jul 25, 2012 |
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Study shows that blood poisoning drug withdrawn by manufacturer may be effective after all
A controversial drug used to treat patients with severe sepsis (a whole-body inflammatory response often bought on by blood poisoning) withdrawn by manufacturer Eli Lilly in October 2011 due to concerns over its efficacy ...
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Jul 16, 2012 |
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Food poisoning
Food poisoning refers to acute illness due to the ingestion of food. It can lead to infectious diarrhea.
The term usually includes:
The term usually does not include the consequences of invasive organisms acquired via the food supply. (The broader term foodborne illness includes these conditions.)
Onset of food poisoning following the consumption of the tainted food or drink can last from one to ten days.[clarification needed]
Food poisoning can be a notifiable disease in some jurisdictions. An alarming number of people are affected annually by food poisoning. Food poisoning endangers between sixty and eighty million people throughout the world each year and results in between six and eight million deaths.
Common causes of food poisoning: If the incubation period is less than six hours, a possible cause is Staphylococcus aureus toxin ingestion. Symptoms include vomiting, nausea, and diarrhea. Another is Bacillus cereus toxin ingestion. Symptoms include vomiting, and nausea (the "emetic syndrome").[citation needed]
If the incubation period is more than ten hours, a possible cause is B. cereus toxin ingestion. Symptoms include diarrhea and cramps (the "diarrheal syndrome"). Another is ingestion of Clostridium perfringens bacteria, which release a toxin in the gastrointestinal tract. Symptoms include diarrhea and cramps.[citation needed]
E. coli may also cause food poisoning with symptoms varying with the serotype.[citation needed]
For more information about Food poisoning, read the full article at
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