The article I read was called High Levels of Resistant Bacteria on Meat (Again) it was written by Mary McKenna on March 3rd 2012 and shows us the horrible diseases that can come from eating meat. I found this article through Google news. The article breaks down different types of meat and what diseases can be spread throughout the meats. I think this article stuck out a lot to me because it showed how easy something can spread from a type of food to humans.
The article shows the testing of 5,280 meat samples collected in 2010 in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania. I thought it was very interesting because the foodborne diseases that were found were not just in one state. These different diseases were found all over the United States and are still here today.
While reading the article they split it up into the different types of disease and meat. They show how the disease has spread.
•A highly statistically significant trend in ampicillin resistance was seen among ground turkey with 52.6% resistance in 2010, up from 31.3% in 2002.
This quote stuck out to me because it shows how much the disease has spread in 8 years. I thought this article can relate to our class because it shows fluctuation in a disease. Just like many other diseases we have learned about a lot of them fluctuate. Also I thought this related to our class because these different foodborne diseases can be easily spread to people and none of the antibiotics that people have been using will work to cure them.
All in all I thought this article was a very well written article. I thought it gave a lot of information to people who didn’t know a lot about these diseases and how many foodborne diseases are still being spread today. This article helped me learn more about the spread of them. Before reading this I had no idea what Campylobacter was and now I do.
This article immediately reminded me of Lindsey’s article from earlier in March titled “MRSA found in Livestock and Causing Concern to Humans.” Both of these stories express the concern for diseases being found in sources of meat that humans eat. I was also surprised by the increased resistance against ampicillin. It means that over 50% of the ground turkey resisted the ampicillin! This concerns me for the resistance of other meat products that may not be reported. It makes me nervous to eat meat because I could get sick from it!
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