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salmonella

Salmonella is a bacteria that causes food poisoning and typhoid fever, or the type of food poisoning caused by this bacteria. (noun)

When you touch raw chicken and get bacteria on your hands from it that makes you very ill, the bacteria is an example ofsalmonella.

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