Food poisoning strikes 1 in 4 Americans each year
Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 16:14
in Health & Medicine
ATLANTA (AP) -- Next time you have a case of diarrhea that lasts a day or more, chances are better than one in three that it was food poisoning. As many as a quarter of Americans suffer a foodborne illness each year - though only a fraction of those cases get linked to high-profile outbreaks like the recent salmonella-peanut scare, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
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