foodborne disease
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disease
noun
uk/dɪˈziːz/us/dɪˈziːz/
(an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by ...
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Foodbornediseaseassociated with milk associated with such failures is unknown.
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This has implications for programmes and strategies to reducefoodbornedisease.
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Global surveillance offoodbornedisease: developing a strategy and its interaction with risk analysis.
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As isolated events, such outbreaks tell us little about the epidemiology offoodbornedisease.
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There are concerns that globalization of the food market may result in increased risk offoodbornedisease and increase the incidence of gastrointestinal infections.
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This prompt electronic dissemination of information regarding unusual events with international implications ensures that public health interventions can be implemented and cases offoodbornediseaseprevented.
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Although it is most likely that listeriosis is afoodbornedisease, the cause of most cases is as yet unknown.
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Foodbornediseasecan also be caused by a large variety of toxins that affect the environment.
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A non-infectious form offoodbornedisease, scombroid poisoning, is due to histamine production by bacteria in spoiled food, particularly fish.
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It is difficult to estimate the global incidence offoodbornedisease, but it has been reported that in the year 2000 about 2.1 million children died from diarrhoeal diseases.
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