Salmonella bacteria is one of the most common causes of food poisoning in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that each year an estimated 1.2 million cases of illness are due to salmonella
Salmonellosis is one of the most common causes of diarrheal illness in the world. It kills around a million people on the planet each year and around 400 in the US. Adhering strictly to food safety standards is essential to…
For over two years, Utah public health officials have struggled with identifying a true source of a Salmonella outbreak linked to queso fresco. With the help of FoodCORE resources, this diverse group of interdisciplinary teams identified the outbreak strain of…
My family visited from out of state last week and we had a wonderful visit. My mother and I talked a lot about important issues within the extended family, her health, and what stages my little one were going through….
Amongst the many crazy wonderful things genetic engineering has given us, this lifesaving, tumor-destructing genetic tweak in a bacterium that causes food poisoning is our favorite. We are talking about Salmonella. Scientists at Duke University have genetically modified the bacteria…
It’s the season for salmonella infections. Reports are coming in left and right. Almost a thousand people have fallen ill from pet chickens. Hundreds more have been stricken in an outbreak related to red onions. Restaurants like Si Casa Flores…
As most of you very well know, the mystery to multistate Salmonella onions outbreak that sickened 396 people is ‘Onions’. After a month of its identification and countless interviews with ill people, CDC finally declared the culprit behind it all…
