What Exactly Is Food Poisoning?
Sometimes, food can be infected, causing you to get sick. Join Trace as he discusses the cause of foodborne illnesses. Follow DNews on Twitter: ...
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...and I ate this burrito and I think I got food poisoning… That sucks, how long was the incubation period? *confused* what?? Hey everyone, Trace here for DNews! My buddy Jared who runs the DNews social media pages got food poisoning today, so we thought we'd pull back the curtain on foodborne illness. People CALL it food poisoning, but the medical community call it foodborne illness, which makes sense. You're not being poisoned by food, but infected by something that's living on the food. Commonly, food poisoning is caused by bacteria, viruses, molds, toxins, parasites or allergens. They range from the fairly well known, E. Coli and Salmonella to the far less known campylobacter, toxoplasma, listeria and clostridium perfringens (clostridEum per-fringe-ens). According to the FDA, most f...
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...and I ate this burrito and I think I got food poisoning… That sucks, how long was the incubation period? *confused* what?? Hey everyone, Trace here for DNews! My buddy Jared who runs the DNews social media pages got food poisoning today, so we thought we'd pull back the curtain on foodborne illness. People CALL it food poisoning, but the medical community call it foodborne illness, which makes sense. You're not being poisoned by food, but infected by something that's living on the food. Commonly, food poisoning is caused by bacteria, viruses, molds, toxins, parasites or allergens. They range from the fairly well known, E. Coli and Salmonella to the far less known campylobacter, toxoplasma, listeria and clostridium perfringens (clostridEum per-fringe-ens). According to the FDA, most f...
