The U.S. Centers for Disease Control 1, announced a family of adults in the New York area by bacterial contamination caused by the consumption of bovine meat and killed. Another American living in New Hampshire due to infection of O157: H7 E. coli death. The cause of death is under investigation whether this person with the beef. It is reported that a total of 28 people who have eaten contaminated beef, the above-mentioned illnesses.
Of E. coli contaminated beef
It is learned that in this beef, the 28 pollution incidents in the sick people, there are 25 people living in the U.S. Northeast, a total of 16 persons so hospitalized. In the last weekend, one specializing in the production of agricultural farms in the state of New York meat has been recalled 248 tons of beef may have been contaminated. These are contaminated beef products were produced in mid-September of this year, and by the end of September have been invested in the United States in eight states on the market.
Consumption of beef products contaminated by E. coli may cause diarrhea and dehydration, can cause serious and even renal failure. The immune system does not sound young children and the elderly are more vulnerable to food poisoning threat. May have been contaminated ground beef sold in areas including: Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia and other places.
Not long ago, China Taiwan authorities have just announced the "amendment to the U.S. beef and beef product import requirements," allowing imports of U.S. beef on the bone following 30 months of age, but the internal organs and bovine tongue will be under strict quarantine and ban imports of beef from the United States filling the grounds that the United States Department of Agriculture did not ground beef Assessment Certificate issued by the quality system. Do not know if this ground beef contaminated storm will cause Taiwan's imports of U.S. beef, what impact.
In the beef products, the threat to human health is most critical to mad cow disease. The disease was first in 1986 in the United Kingdom have been discovered. Appeared in 1996, more than cases of human infection with the disease. The United States also has a number of children suffering from long-term eating hamburgers with mad cow disease. In 2003, the U.S. cattle BSE epidemic, beef exports were subjected to heavy losses. Humans may be due to consumption of "crazy beef" infected with mad cow disease. Data show that cattle under 30 months of age the brain, head, eyes, spine, spinal cord and other parts do not belong to the World Organization for Animal Health identified mad cow disease "high-risk materials." Beef cattle in the course of infection is generally 14-90 days, while the incubation period was able to as long as 4-6 years. Initially, the disease mainly feed containing the spread of animal products. Some researchers claim that, in humans infected with "mad cow" ratio may be one in a million or so.