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St John Ambulance says hundreds of people die in England every year due to choking, but that number could be reduced with more public knowledge of how to perform abdominal thrusts and back blows.

Too many people are choking to death because bystanders don’t know how to intervene, experts have warned.

St John Ambulance is looking to raise awareness of two potentially life-saving skills everyone should seek to learn: back blows and abdominal thrusts.

The charity said around 300 people die in England every year due to a choking incident, but that number could be reduced with more public knowledge of how to help.

‘I was becoming more and more scared’

One woman described how her best friend saved her life after she choked on a fish bone in a pub in Totnes, Devon.

Leslie Sinoway, 54, from St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex, said she thought she was going to die when the bone became lodged in her throat.

Her friend Lucy Rhoades recognised something was wrong and delivered back blows, dislodging the bone.

Ms Sinoway recalled: “I got up and kept coughing, becoming more and more scared. Lucy noticed and got up. She asked me if I was OK, and I gestured that I wasn’t. That’s when she started giving me firm back blows.

“A fish bone flew out. I genuinely thought I was going to die. It was horrible.”

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More than a third of people affected in the outbreak were admitted to hospital – with two people developing potentially life-threatening infections. Sufferers included babies and some patients as old as 90.

One person has died and hundreds have been left ill with food poisoning after a salmonella outbreak, health officials say.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the salmonella outbreak “may be linked to eggs imported” from outside Britain.

From 11 August last year to the start of this month, the agency said 207 cases had been confirmed – 199 in England, six in Scotland, one in Wales and one in Northern Ireland.

More than a third of people affected in the outbreak were admitted to hospital, while two developed potentially life-threatening bloodstream infections, the UKHSA added.

Those affected include babies and patients as old as 90.

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