Certain groups are more vulnerable to food poisoning than others including the elderly, sick, babies, young children, and pregnant women as food poisoning is more likely to affect those with lowered resistance to disease and show more severe symptoms where healthy people may only experience mild symptoms or none at all.

1. Food poisoning is more likely to affect people
with lowered resistance to disease than healthy
people who might show mild symptoms or none
at all.
The following are particularly vulnerable to food
poisoning: -
• Elderly or sick people
• Babies
• Young children
• Pregnant women
VULNERABLE GROUPS