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Describe And Explain How To Write An Essay On Salmonella

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At one point there was a ban on selling baby turtles because they were known to have contracted salmonella. Salmonella is a common food poisoning disease. Salmonella is usually found in poultry, but mainly in raw or undercooked eggs. It can also be found in a lot of countries and states. Usually salmonella isn't too severe but there are many ways it can go wrong. If contracted, salmonella can cause many malfunctions to happen in the body. Even though it’s not very severe it, causes roughly about 19,000 hospitalizations and around 380 deaths a year. When a person gets salmonella, it starts to attack the digestive system.the digestive system is one of the many systems in the body. “This system is made up of the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, …show more content…

People get salmonella from eating raw or undercooked eggs, but are very rare in beef or they could have been holding an animal that has salmonella and didn't wash their hands
Randall 2 afterwards. “Salmonella is also made up of special proteins that can make zinc, which allows the bacteria to stay alive in the stomach” (De-Witt). The people most likely to have been affected by salmonella are usually younger or have very poor immune systems. Salmonella can many symptoms including cramps and a fever. There are also many ways it can spread.
Salmonella can backfire or do a lot of bad things in the body in many ways. “Some symptoms of normal salmonella include abdominal cramps, fever, headache, a decrease in appetite, and a change in mental status”(De-Witt). In some common cases of salmonella poisoning it can cause a disease called Typhoid Fever, some common symptoms of typhoid fever include a headache, nausea, extreme fatigue, joint pain, and rashes across the abdomen. Although rare, salmonella can also cause meningitis, which is a deadly brain disease which is very dangerous to infants. Salmonella can also enter and infect the bloodstream, bones, or even the fluid around the brain, but this is even more rare that typhoid fever and

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