Andy and Frankenstein, the weather men.
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Andy is a fast talker, isn't he?
Blah, blah, blah….
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Red Tape at the Gulf Coast.
You know I am tired of hearing about the 'frustration' of 'dealing with' this dysfunctional society created by Bush. When are you going to bring news about facts that facilitate issues rather than promoting frustration.
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The news secretary.
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E. Coli. Now that is a subject that is burgeoning on the horizon of medical science as the daunting issue of the century. You actually got Sanjay Gupta to discuss BOWEL bacteria. I wonder if the poor child was infected by his own feces, Anderson? Imagine discussing 'bowel bacteria' on an international news program with a segment about children that got ill because that bacteria found it's way into their blood.
You are a sick SOB, Anderson. You ever play in your own feces, Bubba. I looked high and low on CNN e-page and nowhere appears an article on e.coli.
Nope. No e.coli anywhere except AC360.
http://search.cnn.com/pages/search.jsp?query=e.coli
There was this article on the net:
Shareholder dairy’s milk tests positive for E. coli
Cookson BeecherCapital Press Staff WriterSamples of raw milk from Dee Creek Farm in Woodland, Wash., have tested positive for E. coli, according to information from the Washington State Department of Agriculture.The investigation of the dairy was triggered by an outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7 that has sickened several people, most of them children, in southwest Washington and Clatsop County, Ore.Marni Storey, public health manager for the Clark County Health Department, said this latest finding of E. coli in the farm’s milk adds further support to the likelihood that the outbreak is linked to the consumption of milk from the farm.The county’s Public Health Department is investigating illness in 18 people for E. coli infection. Fifteen of those people are children between the ages of 1 and 13. All of them reported consuming unpasteurized milk products from the farm.Five children were hospitalized. Two are still in the hospital and improving.“We are pleased the hospitalized children have improved,” said Storey. “Our focus continues to be to do all that we can to prevent any more illness or hospitalizations.”Anyone who has consumed unpasteurized milk products from Dee Creek Farm or its shareholders within the past four weeks and who has had bloody or crampy diarrhea is urged to contact a local health-care provider or the local health department as soon as possible.The milk samples, which were provided by the shareholders of the dairy, will be sent to the Washington State Public Health laboratory to verify that the strain of E. coli found in the milk is the same that has sickened the people who drank unpasteurized milk from the farm.On Dec. 20, laboratory testing had confirmed that seven of the sick individuals have E. coli 0157:H7, a virulent form of E. coli, a bacteria that lives in the guts of people and animals. E. coli DNA “fingerprinting” results have been received on four of the seven samples taken from the sick people, and all have the same matching DNA fingerprints.Dee Creek Farm operates a shareholder dairy. Under this type of arrangement, consumers buy a “share” of a dairy animal in return for a portion of its milk. The farm is not licensed by the state to sell raw milk, authorities said.In August, the farm ignored a demand by the state’s Agriculture Department that it stop selling milk until it obtained a state license. Under state law, a shareholder dairy is legal but must be licensed by the state before it can distribute raw milk. State licensing includes monthly testing of milk samples and requires raw-milk producers to meet higher standards than those producing pasteurized milk.Many shareholder dairies say they don’t need a license because the dairy animals are owned by the shareholders and therefore the animals’ milk is also owned by the shareholders.Dee Creek operators Michael and Anita Puckett have five cows and arranged to distribute raw milk to about 45 families.Claudia Coles, food safety manager for the state’s Agriculture Department, said Dee Creek has been shut down. Reporters have not been able to reach anyone at the farm.In response to the E. coli outbreak in Washington state, the federal Food and Drug Administration is warning the public not to drink raw milk because it may contain harmful bacteria that can cause life-threatening illnesses.According to the FDA’s website, although the majority of foodborne illness outbreaks associated with E. coli 0157:H7 have involved ground beef, such outbreaks have also involved unpasteurized apple and orange juice, unpasteurized milk, alfalfa sprouts and water. Fresh vegetables have also caused outbreaks.Seattle lawyer Bill Marler, who has won hefty settlements for E. coli victims in other cases, said parents of two sick children have asked him to look into their case.“Its a tragedy all around,” said Marler. “Even though the parents purchased the milk their kids consumed, they certainly didn’t anticipate that the product would have a deadly pathogen in it that could make their kids sick.”Marler said a colleague is analyzing the seven- or eight-page contract that the shareholders signed with Dee Creek.Marler also said the state’s liability will also be investigated.
MAYBE there are more? Do you think there are more articles about e.coli, Anderson?
Let's find out.
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Why Anderson the planet is full of e. coli !
Escherichia Coli
O157:H7
Outbreaks Associated With Petting Zoos, N Carolina, Florida And Arizona, 2004-2005Category: Veterinary NewsArticle Date: 29 Dec 2005
During 2004-2005, three outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections occurred among agricultural fair, festival, and petting zoo visitors in North Carolina, Florida, and Arizona. One hundred eight cases, including 15 cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome* (HUS), were reported in the North Carolina outbreak; 63 cases, including seven HUS cases, were reported in the Florida outbreak; and two cases were reported in Arizona. No fatalities occurred. Illnesses primarily affected children who visited petting zoos at these events. This report summarizes findings from these outbreak investigations, which indicated the need for adequate control measures to reduce zoonotic transmission of E. coli O157:H7.
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Why Anderson, it could be a global emergency bigger than the bird flu. I'll keep looking, Anderson.
E coli warning for imported luxury cheese
RUSSELL JACKSON
FOOD standards officers are warning shoppers not to buy certain luxury brands of imported French cheese and butter which may be contaminated with a potentially lethal strain of E coli food poisoning.
The Food Standards Agency last night issued an urgent Food Alert about Camembert and Coulommiers cheese and Le Gaslonde unpasteurised butter because of possible contamination with the deadly E coli 026 strain.
Why look Anderson, people are sueing e. coli. There should a law !
Two families hurt by E. coli hire lawyers
Wednesday, December 21, 2005By DON HAMILTON, Columbian staff writer
A Seattle law firm specializing in food liability lawsuits will represent two families victimized by the recent E. coli outbreak with an eye toward suing the farm that provided the raw milk that sickened their children.
The law firm Marler Clark won recognition for winning more than $20 million in settlements following the Jack-in-the-Box E. coli outbreak in 1993 and a $12 million settlement in 1998 in the Odwalla apple juice outbreak.
Eighteen people, 15 of them children ages 1 to 13, have been sickened in the outbreak, and all 18 consumed raw milk from Dee Creek Farm near Woodland. Two children remain hospitalized but their conditions are improving.
Clark County and state health officials have been testing and cross-testing milk samples and E. coli victims to determine the scientific link between the milk and the bacteria.
Anderson look at this. Do you think it could be GERM WARFARE? Oh, no. Georgie was right about Iraq.
How E. Coli Bacterium Generates Simplicity From Complexity
The ubiquitous and usually harmless E. coli bacterium, which has one-seventh the number of genes as a human, has more than 1,000 of them involved in metabolism and metabolic regulation. Activation of random combinations of these genes would theoretically be capable of generating a huge variety of internal states; however, researchers at UCSD will report in the Dec. 27 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that Escherichia coli doesn’t gamble with its metabolism. In a surprise about E. coli that may offer clues about how human cells operate, the PNAS paper reports that only a handful of dominant metabolic states are found in E. coli when it is “grown” in 15,580 different environments in computer simulations.
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Boy, it's a good thing you brought this up tonight. Glad I tuned in. Saved my life. Where would I be without Anderson Cooper. That was a close one !
Six E. coli cases linked to milk produced at unlicensed dairy
Wednesday, December 14, 2005By TOM VOGT, Columbian staff writer
Six confirmed cases of E. coli have been linked to drinking unpasteurized milk from an unlicensed Cowlitz County dairy.
All the victims are children between the ages of 5 and 14. Three are in area hospitals, including two in critical condition, said Dr. Justin Denny, Clark County health officer. The other hospitalized child is improving.
None of the children has been identified. The bacteria can cause life-threatening illnesses, but no information has been released about the children's medical problems.
Clark County health investigators have identified one common link, Denny said: All six drank unpasteurized milk that was produced by Dee Creek Farm, a family-run dairy in Cowlitz County.
Four cases were confirmed Monday and the other two cases had been categorized as probable.
