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Would you like some Campylobacter or E. Coli today? Raw milk in 26 U.S. states is now the best place to get it, since most readers of Science 2.0 are not going to have the opportunity to buy chicken from a street vendor in China. That raw milk is risky and has no benefit is not news. In 2012 the CDC showed it again but clamoring for raw milk got even louder. It is in the news again, as part of the naturalistic fallacy that infects mostly the anti-science hippie left and a minority of people on the libertarian 'government...

Garlic may be the best weapon against a type of bacteria responsible for millions of cases of food poisoning in the United States every year, according to a new study. Researchers from Washington State University discovered that a compound found in garlic was 100 times more effective than antibiotics at killing Campylobacter, most common cause of food-borne bacterial illness in the United States. The compound, diallyl sulphide, which is responsible for the garlic smell that sticks to your hands when you cook, worked better and faster than the common antibiotic treatments for Campylobacter, erythromycin and ciprofloxacin. Eating massive quantities of...

Mud contaminated with sheep faeces was the most likely cause of 161 competitors in a mountain biking event falling ill, a report has said. An investigation into the outbreak of vomiting and diarrhoea following the Mountain Bike Marathon, in Builth Wells, mid Wales, was carried out by the National Public Health Service for Wales (NPHS). The 664 riders who took part in the event on Jul ADVERTISEMENT y 5 and 6 were invited by NPHS to complete an internet questionnaire after an initial report of eight people falling sick. Of the 355 responses, 161 reported symptoms such as diarrhoea and...

Lasting effects - Some food-poisoning victims face long-term health problems By LAURAN NEERGAARD/Associated Press Alyssa Chrobuck, who was hospitalized with E. coli in 1993, displays a photo of her as a child in a hospital bed and a few of the many medications she takes. Now 20, the Seattle resident has a host of unusual health problems that she says her doctors have attributed to that illness. Photo by ELAINE THOMPSON/Associated Press WASHINGTON - It’s a dirty little secret of food poisoning: E. coli and certain other foodborne illnesses can sometimes trigger serious health problems months or years after patients...

<p>WASHINGTON - In the week since mad-cow disease was discovered in the United States, more than 1 million Americans were sickened by food they ate. About 6,000 became so ill they were hospitalized and nearly 100 died, according to federal health estimates.</p>