Our gut is home to trillions of bacteria, numbering more than the cells in the rest of our body, and these bacteria help us to digest our food, absorb nutrients and strengthen our immune system. This complex bacterial ecosystem, called the gut microbiota, also helps to prevent bad bacteria from...
Salmonella does the darndest things these days. Once the provence of things like beef and fresh produce, salmonella outbreaks have been cropping up in products from peanut butter to pot pies. The latest addition to that list is easter candy, with the Food and Drug Administration announcing*a...
Peanut butter exec Stewart Parnell is facing federal felony charges for covering up a deadly 2008-09 salmonella outbreak at his company's peanut-processing plants. The outbreak poisoned hundreds of people around the country and caused nine deaths, according to the Centers for*Disease*Control and...
A recent discovery of "hypervirulent" Salmonella bacteria has given UC Santa Barbara researchers Michael Mahan and Douglas Heithoff a means to potentially prevent food poisoning outbreaks from these particularly powerful strains. Their findings, in a paper titled "Intraspecies Variation in the...
An outbreak of an unusual strain of Salmonella, which may have been caused by bad sushi,**has sickened 90 people in 19 states. Which doesn't seem like a lot--except that that's just the number of confirmed cases so far. Most people who suffer from Salmonella symptoms*don't think it's that...
Sanitizing the outside of produce may not be enough to remove harmful food pathogens, according to a Purdue University study that demonstrated that Salmonella and E. coli can live inside plant tissues. E. coli 0157:H7 was present in tissues of mung bean sprouts and Salmonella in peanut seedlings...
Salmonella cells have hijacked the protein-building process to maintain their ability to cause illness, new research suggests. Scientists say that these bacteria have modified what has long been considered typical cell behavior by using a beta form of an amino acid - as opposed to an alpha form...
Earlier this year, an outbreak of salmonella caused by infected eggs resulted in thousands of illnesses before a costly recall could be implemented. Now, University of Missouri researchers have created a new test for salmonella in poultry and eggs that will produce faster and more accurate...
Microbiologists at the Health Protection Agency's Centre for Infections (CFI) in Colindale have confirmed the link between contaminated bean sprouts and 141 cases of Salmonella Bareilly in the UK. Specialists in the CFI's Salmonella Reference Unit report that the strain of Salmonella Bareilly...
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) is strongly advising caterers and the public to heed the Food Standards Agency's advice that raw bean sprouts should be washed and thoroughly cooked before they are eaten, unless they are clearly labeled as ready to eat. An investigation in England and...
The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) announced that The Hartz Mountain Corporation has voluntarily recalled 74,800 8-ounce bags of Hartz Naturals Real Beef Treats for Dogs which may be tained with Salmonella. Infection with salmonella, known as salmonellosis, can affect pets, such as dogs and...
Inspections of Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms revealed horrendous hygiene conditions, with huge chicken manure heaps, live rodents, and wild birds within the hen houses of two farms. Conditions have been described as disgusting, stomach churning, repulsive, and shocking. The inspections...
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I picked up Campolybacter when travelling earlier in the year but was never given any treatment for it. I have since been told I also had Salmonella poisoning but I had never been told let alone treated for it! (A huge mess up a the Drs!) Anyway I have heard Salmonella can lie dormant in...
Research from Malawi, Birmingham and Liverpool has renewed hope that an effective vaccine could be developed against nontyphoidal strains of Salmonella. The work, funded by the Wellcome Trust and GlaxoSmithKline, suggests that the body's immune system could be primed to tackle even the most...