GEO 509 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Foodborne Illness, Coeliac Disease, Cruise Ship
14 Apr 2018
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Contamination of food from different perspectives: most toxic poison to human kind= batcholism, 25-30% of north americans have experienced food poisoning in a year. In us 76 mill get food poisoning and 5k die of food poisoning in a year. In canada it is about 500 people die of food poisoning in a year (divide by. If you buy a meat patty from major fast food chain or even frozen it may contain flesh of 1000 animals. If you buy poultry in ca and us one contaminates is called in campylobacter. It will not kill but make you feel ill, such as nausea. About 40% of poultry has some level of campylobacter. Giardiasis (beaver fever) caused by a parasite that lives in infected intestines animals and humans, dogs, and beavers. Mostly comes from drinking water and hand to hand interactions: usually not fatal and experience no symptoms.
