Your doctor may need to do tests to find the cause of your illness. Our country s food supply is one of the safest in the world. Still, foodborne illnesses are fairly common. Each year, about 76 million persons become sick from food that they ate, nearly 325,000 people are hospitalized, and an estimated 5,000 people die. If you think you are sick from foods that you bought at a store or ate in a restaurant or at a public event, call your local health department.
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