• Question: can food poisoning kill u

    Asked by anon-29505 to Duncan, Grant, Julie, Nik, Rachel on 13 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Grant Campbell

      Grant Campbell answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      Yes.

    • Photo: Duncan Gaskin

      Duncan Gaskin answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      Grant is right, it can, but very rarely does.

      It is hard to get numbers for this, but in 2010 in the UK there were 35 deaths caused by food poisoning out of a total of 561,700 deaths from all causes.

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