Tennis star Federer forced to withdraw

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The BBC reports today that defending Australian Open champion Roger Federer has been forced to withdraw from the Kooyong Classic in Melbourne after coming down with a stomach illness.  Maybe Federer has been fraternizing with one of the estimated hundreds of thousands of Brits who have Norovirus.

I think I had noro back in November.

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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.