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Food poisoning  Food-borne illness: illness caused by food  Usually causes gastrointestinal symptoms  Abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting  Can cause kidney failure, arthritis, paralysis, miscarriage, death  Usually caused by microbes (microorganisms), such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites  Microbes that can cause disease are pathogens (they generate pathology) NOTE: only2 cases of food poisoning that can be tied back to the same source are needed before it can be considered an outbreak Food-borne illness: infection vs. intoxication  Food-borne infection: caused by pathogens that multiply in the human body  Usually from consumption of a large number of pathogens that cause infection or produce toxins in the bod