Posted on 03/26/2023 8:03:45 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
A new study suggests that E. coli from meat products may be responsible for hundreds of thousands of urinary tract infections in the U.S. each year.
A team of scientists developed a new genomic approach for tracking the origins of E. coli infections. Using this method, the team estimated that between 480,000 and 640,000 urinary tract infections in the United States each year may be caused by foodborne E. coli strains.
"We're used to the idea that foodborne E. coli can cause outbreaks of diarrhea, but the concept of foodborne E. coli causing urinary tract infections seems strange—that is, until you recognize that raw meat is often riddled with the E. coli strains that cause these infections," said Price.
E. coli is far and away the most common cause of urinary tract infections, causing upward of 85% of cases each year.
Data suggests that a majority of raw meat products are contaminated with E. coli.
The researchers collected raw chicken, turkey and pork purchased from major grocery store chains and isolated E. coli from these meat samples. At the same time, the researchers collected urine and blood E. coli isolates from patients hospitalized for urinary tract infections.
By analyzing the genomes of E. coli from meat and those from people, the research team identified segments of E. coli DNA unique to strains that colonize food animals versus humans, then developed a new predictive model to differentiate E. coli from the two sources.
Previous work by the same team, investigating a single sequence type of E. coli, had linked contaminated meat to urinary tract infections. In the latest study, the team used their new predictive model to look at all E. coli sequence types and showed that about 8% of E. coli urinary tract infections could be attributed to meat.
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Strange source indeed. I was always under the impression urine was supposed to be sterile so I would have thought most bacteria would have been filtered out before it reached the urine but I guess not. Never had a UTI myself but knew several women who got them regularly. (presumedly because of our different body types) This is a good reminder to be more careful in food prep since they found e coli in all the samples.
NAU was a good school at one time until the artsy-fartsy hippies from Cauliphonya took the joint over. The students there still live in the 60s with the exception of having cellphones. Now it’s another joke like the ASU (Arizona State) party school.
I rarely eat my fingers.
If these ‘scientists’ bothered to check, the pH of the e coli victims’ stomachs would have been ‘high’ of normal and they might also have found rampant PPI abuse.
Systemic inflammation throws the endocrine system into unbalance.
‘Lifestyle disease’ is a broad label for the effects thereof, including susceptibility to food-borne parasitic infections.
Neither excessive hygiene nor sterile food are an answer to the problem.
The jokes write themselves...
“Thoroughly clean everything—including your hands.”
Really. Scrub the cutting board every single time. Cook the heck out of chicken, pork, and turkey. Rinse the heck out of lettuce. These are things most of us have done for decades. I wash peppers, cucumbers, etc., with Dawn before cutting them.
Not a major source of UTI’s. “We estimated that approximately 8 % of human extraintestinal E. coli infections (mostly urinary tract infections) in our study population.....” Agree with other comments. The same E coli that contaminate meat are the ones that contaminate vegetables. Although they all originate from animals (zoonotic).
We have a plastic cutting board which is used only for raw meat, and we wash all our boards after each use.
Don’t buy ground beef in the plastic sausage tubes. Costco and supermarkets that have butcher shops cut the meat from sides of beef and grind it in the store. Meat factories slaughter the beef and grind it into hamburger on site. Much more efficient and cheaper but also less sanitary because the E. coli lives where the cattle are slaughtered. When the sides of beef arrive at the store they are hosed off and handled on clean surfaces.
Also the same with pre formed frozen meat patties. They’re mashed into shape and frozen on site right after the beef is slaughtered.
Plastic boards are less safe than wood. Seems weird, but the way wood reacts to liquids tends to kill off buggies.
Yah still need to scrub them occasionally. But, once dry all the buggies are dead.
Too convenient and serves the needs of the "Eatz ze bugz" elites.
Odd is it not that the last 100 years of scientific research did not know this. I eat Steak Tartar and it is delicious. I recognize it has a slight health risk. I will continue to eat Steak Tartar as it is delicious.
Ciprofloxicin will kill E Coli with ease if a urinary tract infection. Cipro is excreted in the urine thus very high livels are achieved in the kidneys and E Coli dies.
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