Eating undercooked or raw poultry or red meat increases your risk for becoming infected with salmonella. Symptoms include abdominal cramps, fever and diarrhea and begin within 12 to 72 hours of consuming contaminated food.
Opium War. a war between Great Britain and China that began in 1839 as a conflict over the opium trade and ended in 1842 with the Chinese cession of Hong Kong to the British, the opening of five Chinese ports to foreign merchants, and the grant of other commercial and diplomatic privileges in the Treaty of Nanking.
Victorian England, China Historiography Opium Wars. Julia Lovell reappraises Leslie Marchantâs article on the Opium Wars, first published in History Today in 2002. Despite Niall Fergusonâs efforts in 2003 to partially rehabilitate British imperialism in his bestselling Empire the subject still provokes angry debate.