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Be Afraid of Your Food: An Epidemiologist’s Sensible Advice

Vegetables are as dangerous as meat, why you should wash your hands constantly, and the problem with restaurant eggs. It’s all enough to make you never eat again after reading this interview with epidemiologist Patricia Kludt.

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In the new issue of Lucky Peach, Amanda Kludt interviews her mother Patricia Kludt, head of the Epidemiology Program for Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

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Amanda Kludt: What are the most common food-borne illnesses?

Pat Kludt: Illnesses from salmonella and campylobacter are probably the biggest by volume.

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