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Of birds and bacteria: "superbugs" that resist the usual antibiotic treatments are nasty, and they could be in your chicken dinner. Here's how to protect yourself.(Food Safety Test)(Brief Article)
In the fall of 1997, almost three-fourths of the broilers that CONSUMER REPORTS bought in stores nationwide harbored salmonella or campylobacter--the bacteria most likely to give Americans food poisoning. Our new tests revealed contamination in about half of the chickens we analyzed, but there's a dark cloud within that silver lining. Many of the contaminated chickens harbored strains of salmonella and campylobacter that are resistant to antibiotics commonly used against those bugs, which can cause fever, diarrhea, and abdominal cramps.
As a result, the estimated 1.1 million or more Americans sickened each year by undercooked, tainted chicken, or by food that raw ...
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