Salmonella

In 2003, Chili’s, a popular restaurant chain, documented a severe outbreak of Salmonella at one of their Chicago locations. A total of over 300 people were infected and suffered illness due to the outbreak (Falkenstein, 2010). According to the United States National Library of Medicine, salmonella is a bacterium that occurs in raw meats as well as in fruits and vegetables (NLM, n.d.). The symptoms include fever, diarrhea, and nausea to name a few. While no treatment is often required, those with…

Salmonella is a bacterial illness that comes from food and causes an individual to have food poisoning, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and other unpleasant symptoms Nordqvist, 2016). A person can contract the bacteria by eating uncooked or undercooked meat, poultry and eggs. Fruits that have been exposed to salmonella are also carriers of the bacteria. Salmonella can also be spread from an individual coming in contact with a carrier of the bacteria. Practicing poor hygiene can cause the spread of…

And each year these illnesses result in an estimated 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths (Foodborne Illnesses). The big six of foodborne illness included Salmonella Typhi, Shigella spp, Nontyphoidal Salmonella, Eshcerichia coli (E. coli), Hepatitis A and Norovirus. However, most big foodborne illness outbreak strain was Salmonella in 2013. It occurred by Foster Farms brand chicken. It infected more than 600 people.…

part in the 2008-09 salmonella outbreak. Parnell, former CEO of Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), received the stiffest sentence ever given for complicity in a food borne illness. In addition, his brother, Michael, and former manager of quality control at Peanut Corporation of America, Mary Wilkerson, received 20 year and 5 year sentences respectively. 1 The federal criminal case lead to 76 indictments resulting from a four year FBI investigation of the 2008-09 Salmonella Typhimurium…

down to relativism, because unlike Americans, the people of San Lopegattia have become accustom to eating contaminated food. Therefore the people of San Lopegattia have developed higher levels of natural immunity to parasites and bacteria, like salmonella, resulting in being able to eat these foods without suffering from negative health affects. Shipping out the red-labeled boxes in America would be unlawful and unethical without question. However, sending the boxes to San Lopegattia is only…

nuisance with exception to its role in the Plague of Athens. On the surface, “enteric fever” causes a small but common array of symptoms: fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, chills, muscle aches and skin rash. The cause of the disease is salmonella typhi, a bacterium that rides contaminated food and water before establishing pathogenic residence in the human gastro-intestinal tract. Although the disease isn’t as prominent (or ever was), it still impacted our world in a few…

to safeguard and protect it. The roadmap to protecting poultry is not simple, yet it is vital when trying to keep out negative health problems in the poultry industry. People tend to claim that Salmonella is mainly a human problem, however; humans and poultry have a common enemy in Salmonella. When salmonella hurts poultry everybody hurts. In order to fight this enemy, we must learn all we can about what causes…

cause of this outbreak. This showed that most people ate these two dishes and resulted in feeling sick. The laboratory result also specified that the spinach salad also had Salmonella, although it was never suspected this was another potential source of the outbreak. While fewer people were sick after eating hot dogs. Salmonella bacteria is common in eggs and both food item consisted egg as an ingredient. Egg was most likely the potential vehicle to this…

with, Typhoid Fever is a waterborne and foodborne disease that is related with fever caused by a bacteria called Salmonella typhi, also known as Salmonella enterica serotype typhi. This microorganism affects the bloodstream and digestive track (1&4). Salmonella is specific affect for humans. Salmonella typhi travels through food, water, or by a human who carries this bacteria. Salmonella can also spread due to poor hygiene. This bacteria can survive for…

peanut products that were knowingly laced with salmonella (Basu, 2014). Stewart Parnell was an executive of the Virginia- based Peanut Corporation of America, and charged with the day to day oversight of plant operations. In an email between a plant manager and Stewart Parnell advised the plant manager to “SHIP IT” after he was informed of the salmonella infected peanut products (Basu, 2014). According to Moni Basu’s CNN article, “The 2008-2009 salmonella outbreak killed nine people, sickened…