When Food is Dangerous: a primer on foodborne illness


	When Food is Dangerous: a primer on foodborne illness

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<TABLE width="560" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD><DIV class="new_timestamp">POSTED June 22, 11:32 PM </DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-209-Baltimore-Health-Examiner~y2008m6d22-When-Food-is-Dangerous-a-primer-on-foodborne-illness?cid=exrss-Baltimore-Health-Examiner"><DIV> 
<DIV id="hidefrompromo"><IMG height="336" width="455" alt="" src="http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/Image/salmonella(1).jpg" /><BR />Salmonella bacteria.  Yet again, yuck.<BR /> </DIV>It seems to happen a lot lately – tomatoes with salmonella, spinach with E. coli… What is happening to our food?</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-209-Baltimore-Health-Examiner~y2008m6d22-When-Food-is-Dangerous-a-primer-on-foodborne-illness?cid=exrss-Baltimore-Health-Examiner">According to the CDC, an estimated 76 million cases of foodborne disease occur annually in the U.S.  Most are mild, but over 300,000 people end up in the hospital and 5,000 of them actually die.  It is usually the very young, the very old and those with other serious illnesses who suffer the worst fate.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-209-Baltimore-Health-Examiner~y2008m6d22-When-Food-is-Dangerous-a-primer-on-foodborne-illness?cid=exrss-Baltimore-Health-Examiner">How does our food become contaminated, anyway?  Some of the infectious agents are naturally present in the intestines of farm animals, which can contaminate our meat during slaughter.  And fruits and vegetables that are irrigated with contaminated water can be similarly tainted.  Once human food handlers get involved, new pathways for contamination emerge.  Shigella, Hepatitis A and Norwalk virus can all be transmitted by the unwashed hands of infected workers.  Yuck.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D0E9F3FE-4147-4F9F-A331-2C6DE4CA45F3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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