How common is food poisoning?

We've all been there: face down in the toilet trying to expel the toxic remains of last night's dinner. Ugly scene, ugly feeling, ugly clean-up duty. Many people assume that their so-called bug comes from a virus, but the truth is that a lot of intestinal tumult comes from something even scarier—food poisoning.

Why do people often blame the heaves on some alleged 24-hour bug or flu? One reason is that it often takes from 24 to 72 hours for food-borne illnesses to take effect, so you don't associate a potentially bad food with sickness; salmonella can take three days for symptoms to appear, and E. Coli can take up to eight days.

Other various misconceptions about food poisoning also contribute to the confusion. For example, many people believe that spoiled food will always have a bad smell and taste (in fact, germs and toxins don't change the taste), and still many others think that food made at home is safer than restaurant food (not true). No wonder that for every reported case of food poisoning, there are anywhere from 20 to 100 that go unreported, according to the Center for Disease Control.

There are 50,000 to 2.5 million severe cases of food poisoning every year—and 2,500 deaths.

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