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Pet foods from Midwestern Pet Company are under a voluntary recall.
A reported 70 dogs have died, and more than 80 have gotten sick.
The food was found to have dangerous levels of aflatoxins, which are...
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E. coli food poisoning is one of the worst food poisonings, causing bloody diarrhea and kidney damage. But all the carnage might be just an unintended side effect, report researchers. Their findings might lead to more effective treatments for this...
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Shemar Moore has come down with COVID-19 ... and he's hoping this will be the end of a really bad year-and-a-half for him. The "S.W.A.T." actor said when he started feeling lousy, he thought it was just food poisoning. The test he took...
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Imagine dining in a restaurant that served your turkey dinner at 120 degrees Fahrenheit (180 degrees is safe), charged you $500 a plate, and then had no liability when you ended up passed out on the bathroom tile from food poisoning. And then it got...
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Americans are less likely to get food poisoning this Thanksgiving thanks to NASA. Yes, NASA. The space agency’s Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system created decades ago for the lunar landing initiative is credited to this day...
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A teacher in China has been sentenced to death for poisoning 25 children — one of whom died — with breakfast porridge laced with sodium nitrite as revenge after a fight with a colleague, according to reports.
The court in Jiaozuo on Monday...
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Is potential food poisoning worth five grand? For one guy, it was.
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Researchers have solved the mystery of why a species of bacteria that causes food poisoning can swim faster in stickier liquids, such as within guts.
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A man in Utah is telling his side of the story after allegations made by Michael Jordan‘s trainer, Tim Grover, insist MJ’s “Flu Game” was actually due to a bout of food poisoning from pizza...
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For several years, I was engaged in a longstanding battle with my sister over whether or not Chipotle was safe to eat. Several E. coli outbreaks and a reports of post-Chipotle food poisoning kept me far away, but my sister loved their burritos too...
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Ciguatera poisoning causes creepy symptoms that go beyond gastrointestinal distress. And unlike E. coli or Salmonella, you can’t kill ciguatera by cooking it.
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Mookie Betts wasn't too worried when he became ill at the end of last week. While the country was dealing with the growing COVID-19 outbreak, he was dealing with food poisoning.
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]]>(MedPage Today) -- You've heard about it all your life. Maybe feared it. Maybe survived it. But do you really know what cancer is? (AACR)
E. coli -- more closely associated with food poisoning and related illness -- may set in motion...
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Anyone can get salmonella poisoning, but babies, toddlers, the elderly and people with immunodeficiencies are particularly susceptible. For people with weakened immune systems, the gastrointestinal disease can lead to serious complications. So far...
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-- Food poisoning symptoms can range in severity depending on the type of germ swallowed, says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
After consuming contaminated food, it can take hours or days to have symptoms.
The CDC mentions...
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A multistate outbreak of listeria may be linked to hard-boiled eggs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday. The CDC is advising people who are at high risk for infection, such as pregnant women, newborns, people...
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TUESDAY, Nov. 26, 2019 -- When preparing the Thanksgiving feast this week, don't forget food safety, a medical expert says.
Each year, about 48 million Americans get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die of food poisoning, according to the...
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U.S. health officials on Friday told people to avoid romaine lettuce grown in Salinas, California, because of another food poisoning outbreak.
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Foodie tradition dictates only eating wild oysters in months with the letter "r"—from September to April—to avoid watery shellfish, or worse, a nasty bout of food poisoning. Now, a new study suggests people have been following this practice for...
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Nothing ruins a romantic vacation quite like diarrhea ... Just ask golf superstar Rickie Fowler who says he came down with a terrible case of food poisoning while honeymooning with his smokin' hot wife, Allison Stokke. Fowler and Stokke got...
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