DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: In health news this morning, experts are trying to help doctors better diagnose and treat food-borne illnesses. Yuck, but it's important to talk about. Our medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is here to do just that.</s>ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: And, of course, food-borne illnesses is just a fancy way of saying food poisoning.</s>KAGAN: Food poisoning, bad stomach ache, gross things.</s>COHEN: Exactly, yuck, just yuck. So we will try to be a little bit less yucky. But, basically, what the AMA is saying here, Daryn, is that doctors need to do a better job of recognizing food-borne illnesses, they need some reeducation. The reason is is that food- borne illness, food poisoning, you think of it as, you just feel sick for a day, it is not a big deal. Well, 5,000 people in the United States die every year from food-borne illness. And one thought is that doctors are just misdiagnosing it. And doctors really need to do a better job. So what the AMA has done is they have put together a primer for doctors on how to handle food-borne illnesses. One reason they have done this is that a lot of these pathogens, for example E. coli 0157H7 that we always hear so much about, they really only come out, they are emerging infections. And if you have not been in medical school in the past 5 years or 10 years, you really haven't heard about this infection. And so you need to learn more about it. They also think that doctors need to ask more questions about what foods you've been eating.</s>KAGAN: Elizabeth, I am going to have to interrupt you right now. I think we have some breaking new. We will get more to food-borne illnesses in just a minute.
AMA Issues Guidelines to Help Doctors Better Diagnose and Treat Food-Borne Illnesses