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Preston says, ”What annoyed him was the fact that the bits of meat were wrapped in aluminum foil, like pieces of leftover hot dog” (Preston 105). This monkey’s meat contains a deadly Level 4 virus, and yet it is only wrapped in aluminum foil. Someone could have thought that the meat was just hot dog meat; he or she could have unintentionally eaten it. So now the virus is inside the person, and the now infected individual is bound to come into contact with other people. Thus, many people have been exposed to the dangerous virus.

Chapter nine commences by telling its readers about how Lee Harding was diagnosed with E coli 0157:H7. After eating some tacos at a Mexican restaurant, he started to have excruciating stomach pains and diarrhea. Harding’s stomach was hurting because of some frozen hamburgers he ate a couple of days ago. Those same hamburgers provided by Hudson Foods were infected with E. coli 0157:H7. Millions of those same frozen hamburgers had already been sold and most likely eaten.

Florey and his colleagues at Oxford developed the antibiotic use for the penicillium mold however because Britain was under siege, they did not grant any funding or support. This lead to Florey and his colleagues going to the US for help which they gladly offered. The US gladly granted it and Florey and his colleagues began testing and eventually came up with an antibiotic. They began testing in 1942 and a year later, it entered the war. It was a game-changer because it was universal to many infections and later on, became cheap and abundant.

Salmonella is commonly found in cows and raw milk, poultry, pigs, pets and wild

The people that are most susceptible to get Staphylococcus epidermidis are newborns, the elderly, immunocompromised patients, and patient’s who are using a catheter. This is because newborns and the elderly do not have as strong of immune systems as children and middle-age adults

Moreover, Penicillin, a group of antibiotics, was discovered during this time, specifically in the 1928s by Alexander Fleming (ACS, 2023). Although the first dose of penicillin was used in 1941 by Albert Alexander, it was still a life-changing discovery as it changed the lives of many - even after the period of 1918s1939s (Wood, 2010). The discovery of penicillin allowed a lot of life-threatening diseases to be treated, such as bronchitis, tonsillitis, and pneumonia. Penicillin is known to save millions of lives. Indeed, in just World War Two, the death rate because of bacterial pneumonia would go from 18% to 1%, because of the invention of penicillin.

This disease has had outbreaks in Europe and North America. In England, “100,000 cases were confirmed by 1993, 5 million cattle were slaughtered and dozens of people died of the deadly human form of the disease, which is thought to be contracted from eating tainted meat” (Mother Earth News). Following this outbreak the United States temporarily stopped the imports of European beef, but it is believed that some products still passed through ports. The outbreak in England is an example of the result of using the now banned but poorly policed practice of feeding sheep, deer, or cattle meat and bone meal to cattle even though cattle are not omnivores.

"During a time that I should have been planning for my son's college graduation and helping him prepare for his future, I was burying my only son, who only days before had been the picture of health” (IDSA Communications Staff). Theresa Drew, mother of Ricky Lannetti, tells the story of her son’s fatal experience. Ricky Lannetti was a strong and athletic twenty-one year old. Ricky had contracted Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), or better known as the “superbug”. He had reported having common flu-like symptoms leading up to the climax of this infection.

The animals are kept and raised while held in tight spaces and packed with different antibiotics. "When livestock producers administer antibiotics routinely to their flocks and herds, bacteria can develop resistance, thrive and even spread to our communities, contributing to the larger problem of antibiotic resistance”(Report Examines Antibiotics). For example, when E-Coli was found out to be the cause of many sick adults and children, and some deaths, the investigation then took place and was found that the farms where the cows were being raised was so unhealthy and unclean that the animals were standing in their own feces. The film also informs the audience with the devastating news of E-Coli being in circulation from the cows standing in their own feces and then being cut into large pieces of meat without being fully cleaned. Because of this, the feces unfortunately got into the meat and had been eaten by the consumers.

It reported 34 cases in pregnant women and 7 cases in non-pregnant adults over a period of 6 months. Another was recorded in the year 1998 and 1999 which was also traced in hot dogs (Montville and Matthews, 2005). A total of 12 people were killed and 79 people fell ill in 17 states in the 1998 and 1999 outbreak. According to Jay (2005) the 1985 outbreak of listeriosis which occurred at southern California in contaminated Mexican-style cheese has brought new alteration to the syndrome. He further stated that at least 86 cases of listeriosis were traced to several brands of commercially produced Mexican-style cheese.

Some of the antibiotics they put in there animals could help cure diseases like MRSA. MRSA is a disease you get from toughing raw meat with a cut on your hand or from touching meat then scratching your nose or something. MRSA kills dozens and injures hundreds a year around the United States. More than 94,000 people have problems with MRSA a year. The animals in CAFOS around the world consume nearly 70% of antibiotics, perhaps more than 24 million pounds a year.

Food borne transmission from infected food workers is also a factor of successful transmission (Quick et.al., 1992). Handwashing, proper washing of raw vegetables and use of gloves in the preparation of food are essential to prevent foodborne transmission of Giardia. Animal sources of Giardia are common. Except for G. intestinalis, the ability of Giardia species found in non-human sources to cause human illness is unclear. G. intestinalis are commonly found in domestic animals such as dogs and cats, and a variety of wild animals.

Bacteria is a microscopic prokaryotic organism(s), bacteria can adapt to most medicines and conditions rather quickly, but Penicillin was different, it was like fighting bacteria with bacteria. 2 million years ago bacteria were the only form of life on earth, now that we’re here they need a place to live, which is in our bodies and other various

coli is associated with eating ground beef, hamburger, at McDonald's Restaurant outlets in Oregon and Michigan. This was the first time that E. coli O157:H7 was linked to an outbreak” (Harvest Public Media, n.d.). In 1987, “One of the nation's more serious outbreaks of meat-borne illness occurs at two Utah institutions for the mentally ill. Twenty-two residents and 31 employees get sick after eating rare grilled hamburgers containing E coli” (Harvest Public Media, n.d.). At Jack in the Box, in 1993, four children died and 700 people got sick from an E.coli outbreak tied to beef served at the restaurant in the U.S.

Also humans are said to contract influenza (flu) from pigs. The illment is said to develop in the lungs of pigs during the summer months and contracted when consumed by