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unusual facts about food poisoning



Mary Lou Petty

Despite food poisoning, she managed to place 4th in the competition and recalls observing both German Leader Adolf Hitler and athlete Jesse Owens at the games.

Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council

The IPC deals with disaster preparedness, biological, radiological, nuclear and chemical agents; toxic fumes and gases; food poisoning; statistics related to poisoning issues; and other related topics.

Rod Donald

Shortly after midnight on 6 November 2005, the day before his scheduled swearing-in for his fourth term in Parliament, he died suddenly at his Christchurch home after suffering for a few days from Campylobacter jejuni food poisoning from an unknown source.

Taxonomic rank

Bacteria may be classified by strains (for example Escherichia coli O157:H7, a strain that can cause food poisoning).


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Arthur Hailey

Runway Zero-Eight (1958) – in-flight medical emergency, caused by food poisoning.

Little Auk

Knud Rasmussen's death is attributed to food poisoning by kiviaq.

NK Branik Maribor

In 1960, during the promotional qualifications for the Yugoslav Second League, NK Branik was involved in the food poisoning affair before their match against NK Karlovac.

Omar de la Cruz

At Sengoku 13, Omar entered the Welterweight Grand Prix, after suffering from food poisoning and fever since arriving to Japan his team decided not to cancel the fight and after struggling to make weight and not being able to recover from the weight cut he lost to Keita Nakamura via TKO in the second round.

Second String

Second String is a direct-to-TV film from 2002 about the Buffalo Bills football team who find its first string (led by real-life Bills quarterback Doug Flutie, who had left the team by the time the film was released) out for a month after a food poisoning incident, leading the team's head coach, "Chuck Dichter" (portrayed by Jon Voight), to hire an insurance salesman named Dan Heller (played by Gil Bellows) as the team's backup quarterback.

Talk down aircraft landing

The 1980 comedy film Airplane! spoofs the same plot with a passenger on a jet airliner being talked down to a safe landing after both pilots contract food poisoning.

The Fatigues

Frank refuses, because he hasn't cooked since the Korean War, where he sickened his fellow troops by using bad meat and has become traumatized because of it (Frank's memory is dramatized with a reenactment in which the onset of food poisoning is set to Barber's "Adagio for strings", as in the film Platoon).

Transport in Gibraltar

In 2003, the land frontier was closed for a day by Spain on the grounds that a visiting cruise liner, the MV Aurora, was affected by contagious food poisoning.