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Food safety. Foodborne illness (also known as foodborne disease and food poisoning) [1] is any illness resulting from the contamination of food by pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or parasites, [2] as well as prions (the agents of mad cow disease), and toxins such as aflatoxins in peanuts, poisonous mushrooms, and various species of beans that ...
2003. A hepatitis A outbreak was one of the most widespread hepatitis A outbreak in the United States, afflicting at least 640 people, killing four people in north-eastern Ohio and south-western Pennsylvania in late 2003. The outbreak was blamed on tainted green onions at a Chi-Chi's restaurant in Monaca, Pennsylvania.
Campylobacteriosis is among the most common infections caused by a bacterium in humans, often as a foodborne illness. It is caused by the Campylobacter bacterium, [2] most commonly C. jejuni. It produces an inflammatory, sometimes bloody, diarrhea or dysentery syndrome, and usually cramps, fever and pain.
According to the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet), there are about 20 cases for every 100,000 people every year. These infections are often traced back to eating ...
Treatment of opisthorchiasis is usually accomplished with praziquantel. A single dose of praziquantel of 40 mg/kg is effective against opisthorchiasis (and also against schistosomiasis). [8] Despite the efficacy of this compound, the lack of acquired immunity to infection predisposes humans to reinfection in endemic regions.
Trematodiasis is a group of parasitic infections due different species of flukes, the trematodes. [4] Symptoms can range from mild to severe depending on the species, number and location of trematodes in the infected organism. [1] Symptoms depend on type of trematode present, and include chest and abdominal pain, high temperature, digestion ...
Stop Foodborne Illness, or STOP (formerly known as Safe Tables Our Priority), is a non-profit public health organization in the United States dedicated to the prevention of illness and death from foodborne pathogens. [1] It was founded following the West Coast E. coli O157:H7 outbreak of 1993 in California and the Pacific Northwest.
Salmonellosis is a symptomatic infection caused by bacteria of the Salmonella type. [1] It is the most common disease to be known as food poisoning (though the name refers to food-borne illness in general), these are defined as diseases, usually either infectious or toxic in nature, caused by agents that enter the body through the ingestion of food.