Food-borne illness can range from mild flu like symptoms to severe nausea, cramping, diarrhea and, in the most severe cases, death. Experts estimate that only 1 in 10 to 1 in 100 food-borne illnesses are ever reported to authorities. Follow up of these cases also tends to prove difficult as usually the batch' of food in question is often long gone. Frequently there is no doctor's or lab report indicating what the causative agent was, while confirming that it was a food-borne illness. Nevertheless, the sanitarian and public health nurse will endeavor to fully review each such report.
Timing is critical when reporting a food-borne illness.
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