Map shows major US egg recall sickness spreading, death reported
Map shows major US egg recall sickness spreading, death reported
At least one person has died and 134 have been infected from an outbreak of salmonella linked to a recall of more than 20 million eggs.
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Symptoms usually start 6 hours to 6 days after swallowing the bacteria.
That's quite the window of time. Why such a huge discrepancy?
It would be due to multiple variables. There needs to a certain amount of bacteria in the small intestine. Some of the variables would be, the amount of bacteria initially ingested, number of bacteria that make it past the stomach, immune system of the host, time for the bacteria in the intestine to reach a concentration to cause symptoms.
Maybe how many healthy bacteria in the gut biome, too. Thanks!
Yep! How much stomach acid, how fast an individuals GI system processes food, lots of variables. Diseases that affect the GI are kinda weird IMHO. :]
Probably a lack of good information - with only a hundred odd cases and not having had much time to get the facts, I'm betting that's a SWAG (scientific wild ass guess) and we'll have better info the more time has passed.
What? Salmonella has huge numbers. Ever been on holiday in North Africa?
There are multiple different types of salmonella infections. They typical serotype in Africa is invasive, meaning it's in the blood and people can become septic. This one appears to be non-invasive, it is similar to food poisoning.
And the latter being the article being based on? Makes sense, thank you! You'd still expect most of the people die due the invasive strain, but its probably people with abnormal immune response such as elderly and immuno compromised people.
Yes! :)