Foodborne illnesses kill 420,000 people a year: WHO

Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 10:01 in Health & Medicine

At least 600 million people, or 1 in 10 worldwide, fall ill from contaminated food each year and 420,000 die, many of them young children, the World Health Organization says.

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