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Boron Elgar
 
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Default How mad cow disease may have gotten into your hamburger, hot dogs and pizza toppings

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 05:09:50 +0100, Torsten Brinch
> wrote:

>On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:05:17 -0500, Boron Elgar
> wrote:
>
>>http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s785664.htm
>>Food poisoning deaths may be wildly underestimated
>>Monday, 17 February 2003

><..>
>>The Danish researchers studied the medical history of 1,071 people who
>>had died within a year of being infected with Salmonella,
>>Campylobacter, Yersinia enterocolitica and Shigella.

><..>
>>Deaths within the first year after infection were 2.2% in the people
>>who had had food poisoning, compared to 0.7% in a control group of
>>3,636 people.

>
>Well, that's pretty incoherent. The study is obviously misrepresented
>by the journalist here. One must seriously question if she has done
>more than to read a oneliner harvested from the abstract, while
>misunderstanding it.
>
>How come you don't notice, Boron?
>

Sorry you cannot read for comprehension. Maybe you can find someone to
explain it to you.

Boron