If you drop your food, it’s less about time spent on the floor and more about the surfaces.
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The “sniff test” doesn’t work every time, and other food safety tips.
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When day zero arrives in Cape Town, the routine surveillance systems that monitor disease outbreaks will be enhanced to pick up new diseases.
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A new study raises concerns about raw meat based dog food, but not for the reasons you think.
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Despite new findings, the deaths can’t be blamed on enteric fever alone.
Not just to avoid creepy crawlies.
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Lurking in the garden are some nasty bacteria with the potential to cause you serious harm.
A timebomb?
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Don’t panic: just follow these basic rules.
Chop, chop.
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How slow diagnosis of bacterial infections is exacerbating our antibiotics problem.
Though commonly associated with food poisoning, the strain of salmonella used is a benign variety.
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What started with a study of diseases transmitted by mosquitos, could end with a new way of treating cancer.
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You gotta have guts to succeed at Rio 2016 – and very healthy ones, at that.
Don’t touch that dough!
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The FDA recently advised people not to eat raw cookie dough because raw flour with E. coli in it had sickened 38 people. Do we really have to forgo our favorites?
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A woman developed sepsis after she was licked by her pet greyhound.
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Many of us spend our working lives in offices - but few of us are familiar with the other life forms that share our desks.
Using whole, unprocessed vegetables and washing them thoroughly will reduce risk of food poisoning.
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Illness from prepackaged salads isn’t uncommon. So how do we protect ourselves from illness when eating salads?
These little-loved microbes may be coming in from the cold.
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We don’t trust bacteria and we don’t trust GM, so putting them together might be controversial. That’s exactly what we’re doing, though.
Avoiding food poisoning could be as simple as using an esky to transport your food to the picnic.
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Warmer temperatures and eating outside go hand-in-hand, but picnics can sometimes lead to nasty surprises. Food poisoning is unsurprisingly more common in summer months. Every Australian experiences food…
Avoiding undercooked chicken meat or liver will help prevent infection.
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Chicken meat is an extremely popular and affordable source of animal protein, and each Australian now consumes approximately 43 kilograms of it every year. But chicken is also uniquely prone to making…