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According to Glickman, after four deaths in 1993 resulted from E. Coli bacterial poisoning in fast-food hamburgers, the USDA received the necessary public and Congressional support to push meat inspection programs which detect bacteria invisible to traditional methods...
...December 6, 1997, issue of The Lancet, an international medical journal published in Great Britain, Dr. Keiichi Hiramatsu of Tokyo's Juntendo Hospital reported that 20 percent of all staphylococcus aureus has become resistant to vancomycin, the only universal drug for the bacteria. It afflicts nearly one million of the 23 million Americans who undergo surgery annually, especially infants and the elderly...
Staphylococcus aureus, an "elite force" in the bacteria battalion, is an adaptable organism that has always developed antibiotic resistance with haste. For example, staphylococcus aureus becomes resistant to erythromycin, a protein inhibitor, after only seven to ten days. Resistance to penicillin developed a few years after its commercial production in 1941, and resistance to four or more antibiotics became the norm for 40 percent of the strains by the end of the 1950s...
...bacteria leads to a wide variety of bacterial pathologies, from fatal pulmonary infections to painful skin burns. Blood infection, infection of the heart valves, infection of the lungs, meningitis (invasion of the spinal cord), osteomyelitis (infection of bone marrow), septic arthritis and perinephric abscess may also result. Many of these conditions can lead to death...
However, doctors say patients underestimate how quickly the bacteria can spread. A study done by the New York City Health Department showed that 470 strains of methillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from around the world all descended from a single MRSA strain from Cairo, Egypt...