Highly Resistant Salmonella: Poultry, Antibiotics, Borders, Risk

Maryn McKenna

If you’re a strain of Salmonella, it’s a very good week. If you’re a human, not so much.

There are two stories occurring simultaneously that underline the rising danger of drug-resistant organisms in the food supply, and the porousness of networks for detecting the dangerous bugs in time.

Salmonella Heidelberg

“resistant to many commonly prescribed antibiotics,” according to the CDC

traveling on ground turkey

Salmonella Kentucky

has become resistant to fluoroquinolones such as Cipro, the drug usually used to treat Salmonella infections. Read more at www.wired.com