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A samplihg o f grocery store meat in five U.S. cities has shown a type o f drug-resistant staph bacteria
is contained in about one quarter o f beef, chicken, pork and turkey for sale, a study said Friday.
Staph Germ Found in Meat, Poultry
Risks need more
evaluation
tainted with the staph germ, a new zona. Their study is to be published
report suggests.
ifl the journal Clinical infectious
The new estimate is based on Diseases, an institute spokesman
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just 136 samples of beef, chicken, said.
(AP) — Half the meat and poultry pork and turkey purchased from
Staph germs are commonly found
sold in the supermarket may be grocery stores in Chicago, Los on the skin and in the noses of up to
Angeles, Washington, D.C., Flag­ 25 percent of healthy people. The
staff, Anz. and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. bacteria can be spread in many set­
Proper cooking kills the germs, tings, including in the packing plant
and federal health officials estimate or in the kitchen, and it can cause
staph accounts for less than 3 per­ food poisoning.
cent of foodbome illnesses, far less
The Centers for Disease Control
than more common bugs like salmo­ and Prevention estimates that staph
nella and E.coli.
accounts for roughly 240,000 cases
The new study found more than a year. Handwashing and proper
half the samples contained Staphy­ cooking are the best ways to avoid
lococcus aureus, a bacteria that can problems.
make people sick. Worse, half of
The study's authors note that
those contaminated samples had a livestock and poultry are steadily
form of staph that's resistant to at fed low doses of antibiotics at in­
least three kinds of antibiotics.
dustrial farms. They suggest that
"This study shows that much of may be a contributor to the antibi­
our meat and poultry is contami­ otic resistance seen in some meat
nated w ith m u ltid ru g -resistan t samples.
Dr. Billy R. Flowers (above center) and his skilled sta ff are ready to help those in need
staph," Paul Keim, one of the study’s
In a statement Friday, the Ameri­
authors, said in a statement. "Now can Meat Institute said the study is
we need to determine what this misleading.
means in terms of risk to the con­
"Despite the claims of this small
TM
sumer."
study, consumers can feel confi­
Keim and his co-authors work at dent that meat and poultry is safe,"
the n o n p ro fit T ra n sla tio n a l said Jam es H. H o d g es, the
Genomics Research Institute in Ari­ organization's president.
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Part 14. Scoliosis Exam: The most important
test your kids will take all year.
p My kids already get back- better than 50% chance for com­ fessional best trained to detect
to-school check-ups. Why plete recovery.
and correct spinal disorders. It’s a
should
Id I brother with yet another
: How can I tell if my daughter simple, painless, inexpensive pro­
one?
might have scoliosis?
cedure that can save your children
: Scoliosis, a lateral curva­
years of discomfort and disfigure­
ture of the spine, is one test
ment later in life. For a scoliosis
pro probably not included in your : The most common visible
checkup, or for answers to any
children’s back-to-school physi­
sym ptom is very prom inent
questions you might have about
cal checkups. And yet, it is dis- shoulder blade higher than the other.
your own health, call us at the
| turbingly common among teen­ However, the best check for scolio­
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Lower Weight
If you want to increase your
chances o f losing weight, reduce
your stress level and get adequate
sleep. A new Kaiser Perm anente
study found that people trying to
lose at least 10 pounds were more
likely to reach that goal if they had
lower stress levels and slept more
than six hours but not more than
eight hours a night.
Nearly 500 participants from
K aiser Perm anente in Oregon and
W ash in g to n to o k p art in the
study, which m easured w hether
sleep, stress, depression, televi­
sion viewing, and computer screen
time were correlated with weight
loss.
Several previous studies have
found an asso ciatio n betw een
these factors and obesity, but few
have looked at w hether these fac­
tors predict weight loss.
People with the lowest stress
levels who also got more than six
hours, but not m ore than eight
hours o f sleep were m ost likely to
lose at least 10 pounds.