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Highly Resistant Salmonella: Poultry, Antibiotics, Borders, Risk
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If you’re a strain of Salmonella, it’s a very good week. If you’re a human, not so much.
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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.
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“resistant to many commonly prescribed antibiotics,” according to the CDC
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traveling on ground turkey
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has become resistant to fluoroquinolones such as Cipro, the drug usually used to treat Salmonella infections.
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