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Be Wary of What You Eat This Holiday Season
Food Poisoning: What causes it and how to avoid it An infectious disease expert shares the symptoms, treatment, and how you can protect yourself from food borne illnesses. This article originally in NewYork-Presbyterian Health Matters. By Camille Bautista-Fryer Manhattan Voice November 27, 2024 Follow @x NEW YORK - We’ve all had that unpleasant feeling of nausea and pangs from an upset stomach after eating. While those symptoms can be a result of indigestion or a digestive condition, such as IBS, they could also be due to a food-borne illness. Every year, an estimated 1 in 6 people in the United States get food poisoning from ingesting food with harmful bacteria, parasites, or viruses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Widespread food-borne illnesses are often linked to food contaminated during the farming or preparation process. Recently, dozens of people got sick from an E. coli ...
