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A food handler has a fresh furuncle on his ...
Vomiting ๐Ÿ” / ๐Ÿ“บ / ๐ŸŒณ / ๐Ÿ“–
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A furuncle is a boil, typically caused by staphylococcal infection. Thus, it can be deduced that the food poisoning is due to staphylococcus aureus, which forms a heat stabile enterotoxin not destroyed by cooking. Ingestion of the preformed enterotoxin causes vomiting.

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i_hate_it_here  Oh, i guess I thought the preformed toxin would lead to hella diarrhea and then shock... silly me +
cheesetouch  I think the right answer might be more related to letting a meatloaf with raw hamburger sit for 12 hours at room temp. E coli the hamburger toxin! (although that's associated with uncooked meat and 350 for an hr should be plenty of time to cook it unless it's real thicc) +



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