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Disease Symptoms Review
Identify each disease by its symptoms.
- Associated with meat, eggs, and poultry; onset is within 6-48 hours; symptoms are nausea, fever, headache, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, and vomiting
Answer: Salmonella
- Associated with canned and jarred foods like soups, vegetables, and sauces; symptoms include double vision, droopy eyelids, trouble speaking or swallowing. Could be fatal.
Answer: Clostridium botulinum
- Grows in chafing dishes when food is not kept hot enough or in cooling dishes that don’t cool quickly enough; onset is 8-24 hours; symptoms include gas pains, nausea, and vomiting. Usually mild.
Answer: Clostridium perfringens
- Spread in untreated water, unpasteurized milk and dairy, raw meat and seafood; onset is 2-30 days; adults have intestinal flu-like symptoms; infants may vomit or have trouble breathing.
Answer: Listeria monocytogenes
- Spread by human carriers with poor sanitary habits handle food; onset is 1-7 days; symptoms include abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever, and sometimes vomiting
Answer: Shigella bacteria
- Drinking water containing raw sewage (during travel), raw or rare ground beef and unpasteurized milk; symptoms include abdominal cramps, bloody diarrhea, nausea, fever, and vomiting
Answer: E. coli
- Contracted by eating raw shellfish harvested from water polluted by sewage or via human carriers who prepared and serve uncooked food; onset is 14-50 days; symptoms include fatigue, fever, nausea, vomiting, appetite loss, liver enlargement, jaundice, and darkened urine.
Answer: Hepatitis A
- Contracted when contaminated shellfish are eaten raw or partially cooked or via infected persons preparing food; onset is 24-48 hours; symptoms include diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, fever, chills, and body aches
Answer: Noroviruses
- Grows in beans, peanuts, corn, or grains stored in warm, moist places; may cause liver and / or kidney disease.
Answer: Mycotoxins