Ewww.Coli

As we all know, E.Coli is a virus that is mainly food born but of course can live on other surfaces (Keyboards, phones etc.). This virus affects many people each year by living and surviving on various meats, vegetables etc. thus when consumed by a human or animal can have very ugly side effects. Even though E.Coli is a potentially harmless virus, there are very few strands deemed "Deadly" .

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/lethal-coli-bacteria-strain/story?id=13745030#.UZRTrbVQGSo

This was a strand of E.Coli that was very deadly. This happened in 2011 and it spread across Europe and caused about 18 Deaths. More than 1,500 people were sick.

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 This is another interesting article about E.Coli. This article was more about the strands being resistant to antibiotics. An example of this was when ten percent of Ground Turkey that was tested contained the resistant strand of salmonella.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/business/report-on-us-meat-sounds-alarm-on-superbugs.html?ref=ecolibacteria&_r=0

The symptoms of E.Coli

1.Serve stomach cramps and stomach tenderness
2.Diarrhea
3.Nausea and Vomiting

This is why it's important that we always watch what we eat and how to properly prepare our food. Remember to clean everything before consumption and don't just assume that there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. It's also very important to know where our food comes from but we can't help that we don't know because our food is moved around to various factories etc before its sold to us. Food inspections should be enforced because before we are given any raw foods we need to know if its safe to enjoy or a potentially dangerous dinner that will cause us to get sick . Even though the government is trying to prevent this from happening , we still have to take our own precautions. Hearing stories like these make me not want to eat certain foods because of the contamination but we can't always help what we eat , partly because we've been eating these certain food all our life.