Foodborne Illness Articles

• Nutrition
  Sports Medicine
  Healthy Aging
  Diet and Weight Loss
  Obesity
  Cholesterol
   
  

  Meat

  Meat is animal tissue used as food. It not only refers to muscle tissue, but also includes fat or non-muscle organs such as lungs, liver, and kidney. All muscle tissue is very high in protein ... > more
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Healthy Aging
  Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
  Liver Disease
  Foodborne Illness
   

  Encephalopathy

  Encephalopathy is a nonspecific term describing a syndrome affecting the brain. Generally, it refers to involvement of large parts of the brain (or the whole organ), instead of identifiable changes ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
  Infectious Diseases
  Viruses
  Allergy
   

  Typhoid fever

  Typhoid fever (a.k.a. Enteric fever) is an illness caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi. Very common worldwide, it is transmitted by ingestion of food or water contaminated with feces from an ... > more
• Prions
  Microbes and More
  Veterinary Medicine
  Genetics
  Genes
  Cell Biology
   
  

  Prion

  A prion (short for proteinaceous infectious particle) is a unique type of infectious agent, as it is made only of protein. It is now commonly accepted that prions are responsible for a number of ... > more
• Mad Cow Disease
  Healthy Aging
  Diseases and Conditions
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Sports Medicine
  Chronic Illness
   

  Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

  Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs, also known as prion diseases) are a group of progressive conditions that affect the brain and nervous system of humans and animals and are transmitted ... > more
• Liver Disease
  Viruses
  Infectious Diseases
  Foodborne Illness
  Healthy Aging
  Diseases and Conditions
   

  Hepatitis

  Hepatitis is a gastroenterological disease, featuring inflammation of the liver. The clinical signs and prognosis, as well as the therapy, depend on the ... > more
• Infectious Diseases
  Diseases and Conditions
  Healthy Aging
  STD
  HIV and AIDS
  Lung Disease
   

  Infectious disease

  In medicine, infectious disease or communicable disease is disease caused by a biological agent such as by a virus, bacterium or parasite. This is contrasted to physical causes, such as burns or ... > more
• Encephalitis
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Healthy Aging
  Infectious Diseases
  Sports Medicine
  Diseases and Conditions
   
  

  Meningitis

  Meningitis is inflammation of the membranes (meninges) covering the brain and the spinal cord. Although the most common causes are infection (bacterial, viral, fungal or parasitic), chemical agents ... > more
• Breastfeeding
  Infant's Health
  Nutrition
  Pregnancy and Childbirth
  Diet and Weight Loss
  Bacteria
   

  Colostrum

  Colostrum (also known as beestings or first milk) is a form of milk produced by the mammary glands in late pregnancy and the few days after giving birth. Human and bovine colostrums are thick, ... > more
• Alzheimer's
  Dementia
  Alzheimer's Research
  Mad Cow Disease
  Huntington's Disease
  Healthy Aging
   

  Amyloid

  Amyloid describes various types of protein aggregations that share specific traits when examined microscopically. For a period, the scientific community debated whether or not amyloid deposits were ... > more

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