- Hello, Jeff - Still another reason to stop eating meat.
One amazing statement that really stunned me is the fact that some of
the victims actually ate the ground beef RAW. In this day and age, with
what we already know about the toxicity of meat from chemical, hormone,
pesticide and herbicide sources, not to mention possible mad cow and bovine
leukemia (BLV) infection among other things, how can anyone eat ground
beef, much less raw?
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- Patricia
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- USDA Issues Beef Warning After Salmonella Outbreak
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- (Reuters) -- The U.S. Agriculture Department has issued
a public health warning about raw ground beef products, after dozens of
people in the Northeast became ill with salmonella infections, a spokesman
said on Fri 30 Jan 2004.
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- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating
a salmonella outbreak of at least 37 cases in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont.
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- Health officials said many of the people who became ill
reported eating ground beef, and some ate the meat raw. "This was
enough for us to warn consumers that ground beef may be the root of infections
in this case," said Matt Baun, spokesman for the USDA's Food Safety
and Inspection Service.
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- "We wanted to warn consumers that, until we get
more information, the best way to protect themselves is to cook their ground
beef," he added.
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- CDC officials were not immediately available for comment.
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- Salmonella, which sickens 1 million people annually,
can cause vomiting, diarrhea, and fever in healthy adults and can be fatal
for elderly people or those with weak immune systems. Symptoms usually
occur 8-72 hours after eating infected meat.
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- About 600 Americans die from salmonella infections annually,
according to federal health data.
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- Baun said he was not aware of any deaths linked to the
outbreak. The USDA said it was investigating whether the tainted ground
beef products originated from a common source.
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- To prevent salmonella poisoning, USDA says meat and poultry
products should be well-cooked, without any pink in the middle.
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- Patricia A. Doyle, PhD Please visit my "Emerging
Diseases" message board at: http://www.clickitnews.com/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=emergingdiseases
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