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Published on: 4/10/2008
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David Waltner-Toews gets down and dirty
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Every year, according to Dr. David Waltner-Toews in his book Food, Sex, and Salmonella, a billion people suffer the often hideous effects of food- and waterborne diseases.Two million of them, mostly young children, die.But does anyone really want to talk about this let alone read an entire book about it With numbers like that, and with this problem growing worse every year, he writes, it¡¯s simply necessary. ¡°There is no such disease as the stomach flu,¡± Waltner-Toews, a veterinarian and epidemiologist who specializes in the illnesses people get from animals, announces early on in the book.