zoonotic disease
Hepatitis E is a zoonotic disease, meaning a disease that is transmitted from animals to humans. Pigs are reservoirs of Hepatitis E, which raises concerns regarding the safety of the pork. Being exposed to farm animals may actually be a risk factor factor for developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma. However, exposure to cats, dogs, and other pets may actually decrease the risk.
No standard cooking method can completely kill Salmonella and even the American Egg Board reports that eggs cooked sunny-side up are unsafe.
The most common cause of adult onset epilepsy in the world is neurocysticercosis, which are pork tapeworms curled up inside the brain. There are a number of things one can do to reduce one’s risk of contracting pork tapeworms.
Nearly half of retail meat and poultry in the United States has been found to be contaminated with Staph bacteria. When retail meat samples are tested for MRSA contamination, the superbug is consistently discovered. MRSA kills more Americans than AIDS every year in the U.S. Mutagenic compounds and viruses found in meat may be the reason as little as two boneless chicken breasts can increase leukemia risk as much as smoking ten cigarettes. There’s even an obesity-causing virus in poultry that may transmit to the human population.
Topic summary contributed by Sheila Buffie
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Watch videos about zoonotic disease
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Foodborne RabiesThe consumption of cat and dog meat may be playing a role in "massive human rabies epidemics" in Asia. (Some people may find some of the concepts and images in this video disturbing.)
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Not So Delusional ParasitosisDelusional parasitosis is a form of psychosis characterized by the false belief that one is infested with some sort of parasite. It can be triggered by a variety of brain diseases, including..
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Handwashing Compliance of Retail Deli WorkersHow often do retail deli workers wash their hands at both independent and chain stores? This is important given the potential for life-threatening blood-borne viruses such as hepatitis C.
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MRSA in U.S. Retail MeatMore than a thousand retail meat samples have been tested for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) contamination in North America.
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Airborne MRSAMethicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus "superbug" found not only contaminating the U.S. retail meat supply but isolated from air samples outside swine CAFOs.
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U.S. Meat Supply Flying at Half StaphAn investigation finds 47% of U.S. retail meat tested is contaminated with staph (Staphylococcus) bacteria. Turkey appears most likely to harbor contagion.
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Total RecallSalmonella, the leading cause of food-poisoning related death, can survive most common egg cooking methods including scrambled, over-easy, and sunny-side-up. Cross-contamination onto fingers,..
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Avoiding Epilepsy Through DietAvoiding pork tapeworm parasites (cysticercosis) is not as easy as just avoiding pork.
