Katy Perry cancels shows; ill with food poisoning and dehydration

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I’m a sucker for pop music; although I don’t have any Katy Perry on my iPod I do have a bunch of equally-uncool tracks that pop-up when it’s on shuffle. According to bitten and bound, Katy is cancelling some shows after falling ill with foodborne illness.

The singer is suffering from severe dehydration after battling food poisoning.  Her Windy City fans won’t be the only ones disappointed because her Saturday performance at the Xcel Energy Center in the Twin Cities has also been canceled.

Perry released a statement to her fans: “I apologize to my fans in Chicago and the Twin Cities for not being able to perform this weekend, but I am going to return in a few weeks to give them the very best show ever!”

Lamely, the only joke I can think of is whether she’s experiencing fireworks in the bathroom.

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Dr. Ben Chapman is a professor and food safety extension specialist at North Carolina State University. As a teenager, a Saturday afternoon viewing of the classic cable movie, Outbreak, sparked his interest in pathogens and public health. With the goal of less foodborne illness, his group designs, implements, and evaluates food safety strategies, messages, and media from farm-to-fork. Through reality-based research, Chapman investigates behaviors and creates interventions aimed at amateur and professional food handlers, managers, and organizational decision-makers; the gate keepers of safe food. Ben co-hosts a biweekly podcast called Food Safety Talk and tries to further engage folks online through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and, maybe not surprisingly, Pinterest. Follow on Twitter @benjaminchapman.