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Food-borne illness, food-borne disease, or commonly known as food poisoning.
The top three are Campylobacter, Salmonella and Escherichia coli.See Related Links.
flu is airborne, cholera is water borne, herpes and aids is sexually transmitted.
Food borne illness is caused by consuming contaminated foods or beverages. Many different disease-causing microbes or pathogens can contaminate foods, so there are many different types of food borne illnesses. Most food borne diseases are infections caused by a variety of bacteria, viruses, and parasites.
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Food-borne disease can be caused by consuming food which contains bacteriological pathogens.
Bacteria and viruses are two organisms which might cause food poisoning or food borne illness.
Preventing the spread of germs and bacteria on food, decreasing the risk of food borne illnesses.
Food-Borne disease is a disease that is carried by eating food. Legonaires disease is an example of large numbers of people becoming very ill or even dying from all eating at the same place, and eating the same foods. Dirty restaurants are one of the immediate causes that comes from a source. Other sources could be from infected animals.
Bacteria from uncleaned surfaces or uncooked food cause food borne illnesses.
The food-borne bacterial infections listeriosis--caused by Listeria monocytogenes --and salmonellosis or food poisoning--caused by Salmonella bacteria--can be transmitted to a fetus.