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How can you tell between the flu or food poisoning?
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Difficult : If you have an obvious risky food exposure with other sick contacts then food posioning would be more likely. Otherwise very difficult to differentiate the two, though the flu may have more systemic sx such as muscle aches and pains.
Answered 10/6/2013
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