A new report out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explores the gains made against E.coli and the lack of results achieved against salmonella over the past 20 years in the United States. They are both potentially deadly bacteria that arise from food poisoning.
Reuters considers this year's devastating outbreak of E.coli in Germany to be, "the deadliest outbreak of E.coli ever seen." Already, over 2400 people have been infected and 23 have died.
The United States suffered from a deadly E.coli strain in 1993 when 4 died after eating hamburgers at the Jack in the Box chain. Ever since, the focus on that strain of E.coli has successfully diminished the bacteria's effects: infections were decreased by one half between 1997 and 2010. Still, other, less-prevalent E.coli strains increased by 58% in America last year alone. This includes the strain in Germany, which was discovered in several visitors returning from the country.
CDC attributes the successes to "improved slaughter methods, testing, better inspections and other efforts," including cooking meat more. However, a pathogen research director at the University of Florida is not confident this nation could yet handle an outbreak like the one in Germany.
The unsuccessful battle against salmonella highlights this concern. It is the most common foodborne illness in the nation, and has not diminished in 15 years, since the CDC began monitoring. Last year, a salmonella outbreak caused 2300 infections and 29 deaths.
According to the CDC, about one of six people in America suffer from food poisoning annually and about 3000 die each year.
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