CDC sounds alarm over deadly drug-resistant salmonella

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A deadly strain of salmonella that has sickened more than 250 people may not respond to the antibiotics commonly prescribed to treat the foodborne infection, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published on Thursday, the CDC said that from June 2018 to March 2019, 255 people in 32 states were infected with the strain, with 60 being hospitalized and two dying from the infection.Salmonella Fast Facts"We are continuing to see cases occurring among patients," Dr. Ian Plumb, an epidemiologist in the CDC's Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch and the lead author of the report, said in an email to CNN.

An estimated 1.2 million cases of salmonella occur annually in the United States, with approximately 450 people dying each year because of the infection. People become infected by eating foods such as beef, poultry, milk or eggs, contaminated with animal feces.Typical symptoms include diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and fever. Most people experience symptoms within eight to 72 hours after contaminated food is ingested.

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They have poison us again

See those hot dog shaped bacteria. They are spironolactobacillus. They are infectious. The red color is a toxic swab called gram negative stain. The purple around it is excess stain.

Anybody working on new antibiotics? No? Just checking.

Its drug resistant because of the antibiotics the cows are injected with.

There hasn't been a case since last March? So why report it now? I'll go read again.

I thought salmonella was a dinosaur.

.....automatically, I blame San Francisco....... (And all sanctuary cities.)

Good thing I’m on an alcohol diet.

Dont forget about the typhus outbreak in Los Angeles.

First the measles, now this!

Welcome to the future.

bruh why this look like hotdogs

Not liking that one!!

It’s all Fredo’s fault

Bet it came from Mexico!

Can we talk about California yet?

Now I want vienna sausages 😋

'Eighty-nine of the people who contracted the infection had recently traveled to Mexico.'

Let me guess, President Trump's fault?

This is what happens when people smoke the devil’s marijuana. s8n you are officially cancelled

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