Upset stomachs featured twice in the headlines recently. On 5th September, there was news that comedian David Walliams attempt to swim the Thames for charity had been hampered by a stomach bug contracted when he swallowed some murky water.
And on 6th September, new research was published which showed that almost one in four people in the UK suffers from stomach upsets each year. Alarmingly this figure has risen 43 per cent since the mid-1990s.
The statistics were compiled by researchers at the University of Manchester on behalf of the Food Standards Agency (FSA). Food poisoning is a major cause of stomach bugs – about 5.5 million suffer from this illness each year.
No win no fee solicitors Claims Direct can help people make a personal injury claim if they have suffered food poisoningas a result of a manufacturer or seller's negligence – if a shop has sold out-of-date or insufficiently-refrigerated food, for instance.
According to the latest FSA statistics:
Roughly half of all people who were affected by an infectious industrial disease (IID) had to take time off work or school
The highly-infectious vomiting bug Norovirus is the biggest cause of tummy upsets in the UK
Campylobacter – which is mainly found on raw poultry - caused the majority of bacterial IID in the UK; 500,000 (three per cent) of cases of IID were caused by this bacteria.
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