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Human Salmonella Reduced by Almost One-Half
2014-08-01 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
EU - Salmonella is a bacterium causing salmonellosis in humans. Salmonella was until 2005 the most common food-borne disease in the European Union (EU) with almost 200,000 reported human cases that year. It is estimated that the overall economic burden of human salmonellosis for the EU could be as high as €3 billion a year.
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Weekly Overview: Human Risk from Salmonella Unrelated to Farm Use of Antibiotics
2013-02-04 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ANALYSIS - The risk to humans from multi-drug resistant (MDR) Salmonella is the same as from non-multi-resistant strains and has little to do with the use of antimicrobials on the farm, according to an Iowa State University professor. A new survey reveals that global pig feed tonnage in 2012 was 218 million tonnes in 2012, eight per cent higher than the previous year. In North America, a new type of Brachyspira is being blamed for the recent rise in cases of swine dysentery.
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