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    Toronto in 1902 was a city on the cusp of transformation. It was a city marked, like many large Western cities by the high probability of death at a young age. At this time period life in large cities was characterized by many deaths due to infectious disease. According to the death records collected from the year 1902 to 1904 by the city of Toronto, 8.1% of the total population died from gastroenteritis or typhoid. For the purposes of comparison, it is important to note that the mortality burden

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    individuals who eat that food (Safian, 2014). Of those found to be in the biological nature include contamination of expired poultry, beef, and eggs. Upon consumption of any of these meats by partons or patient of the facility, individuals could develop salmonella poisoning, listeria, bacillus cereus, and norovirus which “is the leading cause of acute epidemic gastroenteritis among children under the age of 5 years and adults in the United States and in adults worldwide, accounting for an estimated 20% of

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    Gastroenteritis is inflammation and swelling of the gastrointestinal track. Gastroenteritis can usually caused by ingesting food contaminated with some bacteria. Furthermore, some common causes of gastroenteritis include, shigella infection, cholera, and salmonella infection. There are many symptoms of gastroenteritis, including diarrhea, nausea, abdominal pain and vomiting (Guerrant, Bobak, 1991). In addition, vomiting and diarrhea can cause dehydration, and children are likely to get dehydrated more quickly

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    underestimated due to an inadequate surveillance system. Though this was partially a result of basic failures of the surveillance system (such as a lack of timely reporting and a lack of laboratory confirmation or serotyping), it was also due to a lack of economic interest. In the 1990s, increases in tourism (driven by cruise ship lines, etc.) stimulated interest in identifying and preventing outbreaks, which could be bad publicity and thus economically devastating. Likewise, although Ebola hemorrhagic

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    Salmonella Essay

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    that is caused by ingestion of contaminated foods or water in which an extensive etiological agents known as enteric pathogen are present, [1]. Salmonella is one of the most opportunistic gram negative, facultative anaerobic food borne pathogens that represent a major health problem and a substantial cause of food poisoning[2]. Salmonellosis caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) stance as the second most prevalent cause of acute gastroenteritis that affecting one million

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    The Microbe Many people in nowdays love consuming berries as it is known for one of the healtheirst fruits you can eat . However berries have been implicated in foodborne outbreak. Cyclospora Cayetanensis is a species of human pathogenic parasite that enter the human body and produces an intestinal infection in non-immune person. It is the parasite that is known as an emerging pathogen that causes diarrhea and, loss of appetite and it sometimes fatigue in humans. In terms of morphology, it has

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    Introduction The human body is comprised of an abundance of microorganisms that are considered part of our normal and healthy microbiota.8 Most of these microorganisms are typically not injurious, but under certain conditions or when a patient is immunocompromised, some microorganisms may produce infectious diseases.7 Infectious diseases are ailments caused by the opportunistic pathogens already present in our bodies or other harmful microorganisms that were acquired from traveling, hospitals, outdoors

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    Salmonell Salmonella

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    Every few years there are reports of Salmonella in the poultry at local food markets. Humans can become infected with diseases via air, beef, chicken, fish, eggs, and crops and water that contain animal feces. Humans that are infected experience flu-like symptoms, and sometimes death. “Deleener and Haebaert showed that the ferequency and variation of the different isolated salmonella-stereotypes from asymptomatic carriers in a meat packing plant corresponded

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    Salmonella Outbreak

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    For an individual to succumb to salmonella, an infectious does 500,000 organisms is enough to cause illness. Salmonella if found in the gastrointestinal tracts of animals and birds., with the typhoid one only residing in the in human gut. Prevalence: The organism was responsible for 30% of food borne outbreaks in UK in 2009. Salmonella is known to survive well in foods and on surfaces and survives well under a minimum of 7⁰C. Salmonella is capable of survival under refrigeration for

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    Salmonella Serotypes

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    the most well-known and generally appropriated foodborne maladies and is brought about by the microorganisms salmonella. It is assessed that a huge number of human cases happen overall consistently and the ailment brings about more than hundred thousand passings. For salmonella species, more than 2 500 unique strains (called "serotypes" or "serovars") have been distinguished to date. salmonella is an omnipresent and solid microorganisms that can survive a few weeks in a dry situation and a while in

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