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  2. Hygiene - Wikipedia

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    Food safety (or food hygiene) is used as a scientific method/discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness. The occurrence of two or more cases of a similar illness resulting from the ingestion of a common food is known as a food-borne disease outbreak. [ 60 ]

  3. Botulism - Wikipedia

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    Between 1990 and 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 263 individual foodborne cases from 160 botulism events in the United States with a case-fatality rate of 4%. Thirty-nine percent (103 cases and 58 events) occurred in Alaska, all of which were attributable to traditional Alaskan aboriginal foods.

  4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Wikipedia

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    The CDC focuses national attention on developing and applying disease control and prevention. It especially focuses its attention on infectious disease, food borne pathogens, environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion, injury prevention, and educational activities designed to improve the health of United States citizens.

  5. Disease - Wikipedia

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    Some health insurance policies also define a medical condition as any illness, injury, or disease except for psychiatric illnesses. [ 16 ] As it is more value-neutral than terms like disease , the term medical condition is sometimes preferred by people with health issues that they do not consider deleterious.

  6. Diarrhea - Wikipedia

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    Diarrhea is defined by the World Health Organization as having three or more loose or liquid stools per day, or as having more stools than is normal for that person. [ 2 ] Acute diarrhea is defined as an abnormally frequent discharge of semisolid or fluid fecal matter from the bowel, lasting less than 14 days, by World Gastroenterology ...

  7. Canning - Wikipedia

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    Salt (sodium chloride), dissolved in water, is used in the canning process, which helps prevent spoilage and can improve sensory characteristics. [22] As a result, canned food can be a major source of dietary salt. [23] Too much salt increases the risk of health problems, including high blood pressure. Therefore, health authorities have ...

  8. Surgery - Wikipedia

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    Surgery [a] is a medical specialty that uses manual and instrumental techniques to diagnose or treat pathological conditions (e.g., trauma, disease, injury, malignancy), to alter bodily functions (e.g., malabsorption created by bariatric surgery such as gastric bypass), to reconstruct or alter aesthetics and appearance (cosmetic surgery), or to remove unwanted tissues (body fat, glands, scars ...