The Link Between Milk and Juvenile Diabetes
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GOT MILK? SOMETHING MAY BE BUGGING YOU!
"Wholesome" milk may contain streptococcus, staphlococcus, tuberculosis, clostridium, salmonella, E. coli and lysteria. However, if you've gotten food poisoning, chances are that Campylobacter is to blame (Read on to find out more about Campylobacter).
Campylobacter jejuni (C.j) is the most commonly reported bacterial cause of foodborne infection in the United States according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). In addition, a growing proportion of human infections caused by C.j are resistant to antibiotics.
HOW MANY AMERICANS GET SICK FROM FOOD?
The CDC estimates that 2.1 to 2.4 million cases of human illness are due to Campylobacter each year. Symptoms of infection include diarrhea, high fever and abdominal pain. In one study, nearly 50 percent of C.j- infected patients reported a history of bloody diarrhea.
CAMPYLOBACTER IN THE FOOD SUPPLY
Surveys of agricultural products support epidemiological evidence implicating milk and dairy products, poultry and meat as sources of human infection. In one CDC study, 12% of milk samples from dairy farms in eastern Tennessee were contaminated with C.j. Milk usually contains bovine feces and pus; the latter often present in large amounts as a consequence of mastitis.
In European nations, regulators do not allow more than 400 million pus cells per liter of milk. In America, FDA and USDA allow 750 million pus cells per liter.
Colonies of bacteria double their number at room temperature every 20 minutes. Even at 40 degrees Fahrenheit (in the refrigerator) bacterial numbers can double every forty hours. One drop of sour milk can contain 50 million bacteria. After ten days in the refrigerator that number can grow to nearly one-billion bacteria.
Rod-shaped bacteria form "spores" at the first sign of heat. "Spore" is the Greek work for "seed." When the milk cools, the seed grows back to its original form.
On day ten you might dump your milk down the drain because of an offensive odor. On day nine, you might drink that same milk. It can take up to 45 days to develop symptoms and become sick from the milk you drink. Such is the case of the listeria bacteria. In February of this year, three hundred thousand cases of milk and dairy products were recalled from the 50 states in America as a result of listeria contamination. -Robert Cohen
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