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Page 325 Under heading Multiple Exposures"Multiple exposures to the same affliction have no effect if it’s a curse or disease. However, for a poison, failing the initial saving throw against a new dose increases the stage by 1 (or by 2 if you critically fail) without affecting the maximum duration. This is true even if you’re within the poison’s onset period, though it doesn’t change the length of the onset...
My understanding is basically multiple poison doses escalates the stage track without having to wait for the interval period but don't make the character immediately suffer the effect.
An affliction typically has multiple stages, each of which lists an effect followed by an interval in parentheses. When you reach a given stage of an affliction, you are subjected to the effects listed for that stage.
We read the last sentence as stating the effects of the new stage occur immediately *in addition* to the stage going up, as you've 'reached' the given stage. The multiple exposures text doesn't seem to state that you don't suffer the effects of reaching the stage, just that the maximum duration or onset doesn't get reset.