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Mostly personal experience of me, my wife and a few friends of mine. All people coming from countries with cultures based on quality food and food education. After a few years in the US, and after having embraced the US food lifestyle, most of us developed different sorts of diseases caused by the quality of the food we were ingesting. Worth nothing to say that as soon as we got back to our home country, almost every disease went away.

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Well, I'm sure people from Brescia will not appreciate american restaurant food, but that's not the point.

You specifically mention foodborne illnesses.

The most common are: Botulism Campylobacteriosis E. coli Hepatitis A Norovirus Infection Salmonellosis Shigellosis

Normally this is because the food itself was contaminated at some point in the restaurant. That's not because the food itself causes illness, but the different bacteria, viruses, and parasites due to the environment. It's entirely possible that your regional friends are not used to the same pathogens as americans, so you had to suffer. Yet chances are if americans were to go to Brescia and eat out a lot, they would come down with the same foodborne illnesses because they also are not exposed to the same microflora as you have been exposed your whole life.

Wow, its magic!

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