Typhoid Fever Epidemy Because Of Fruit Smoothies

Posted in Saturday, August 14, 2010
by nessy jane

A rare U.S. outbreak of typhoid fever has been linked to a product frozen tropical fruit used to make the smoothies, responsible Health said Thursday.

Seven cases were confirmed - three California and four in the case of California Nevada.Deux more are under study. Five people have been hospitalized, according to the Centers for Disease Control and prevention said.

The CDC said five of the victims was drunk milkshake vending machines or smoothies made with frozen fruit mamey pasta. Four of them used pulp sold by Goya Foods Inc. of Secaucus, N.J.

Mamey is a tropical fruit sweet, reddish, grown mainly in South America and centrale.Il is also called zapote or Sapotier.Il is peeled and mashed to make pasta, said of the JSC.

The company has recalled pulp, packages sold mainly Western States. A sample from one package found in Vegas tested positive bacteria that causes typhoid, the Food and Drug Administration reported Wednesday.

A phone call to comment search Goya was returned immediately on Thursday.

No other feed has been linked to the disease, which occurred between April and July.The range of victims aged from 4 to 31, says CDC spokesperson Arleen Porcell-Pharr.

Typhoid fever is a fatal disease caused by a type of bacteria called salmonella typhi.It became rare in the United States.There are only about 400 cases per year, and most people he captured when moving abroad.

Three food-related outbreaks were reported during the 12 last années.Un, also related to the pulp of mamey frozen, caused three diseases in Florida in 1999. One, related to the coast of the Gulf oysters, six makes Texas in 2006.The third, linked to a restaurant in Maryland, four diseases caused.

The symptoms are as high as degrees of 103 to 104, lasting fever accompanied by tête.faiblesse headache, stomach pain, or loss of appetite computer.some patients have a rash of dishes, the taches.Elle voicis can be treated with antibiotics.

It is unclear if there will be other cases, said Dr. Ezra Barzilay, the CDC epidemiologist supervise .the survey can take between three to eight weeks for an infected person to develop symptoms days, he noted.

The disease is still common worldwide in developpement. The bacteria through the intestinal tract and often spreads to other users through the stool-tainted food or water.

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