Contaminated chicken meat is the main cause of the most common notifible disease in New Zealand and Professor Michael Baker is coming to Whanganui to talk about it.
The Whanganui Science Forum talk is at 7.30pm on August 29, in the Davis Lecture Theatre. There will be a door charge of either $4 or $5, and supper afterward.
New Zealand's most common notifiable disease is campylobacteriosis, caused by campylobacter bacteria. It's usually from uncooked or contaminated chicken meat.
Interpreted as food poisoning, it can cause diarrhoea, cramps and pain and begin two to five days after ingesting the bacteria. It can lead to chronic disease and death, and the economic cost is high.
New Zealand has the highest rate of acute campylobacteriosis cases in the world, yet action to control it has been slow, and is still inadequate.