Salmonella Outbreak Case Study

Multiple Drug Resistant Salmonella Outbreak Starting on April 25th, 2015 and ending somewhere around October 10th, 2015, 192 reported cases of a multiple drug resistant strain of Salmonella occurred in a span of 5 states. Salmonella is an infection that continuously seems to pester people year after year with multiple reports. This bacteria has multiple strains and is known widely throughout America. Most strains of this bacteria aren’t normally fatal, but just like any other bacteria, under the right circumstances, anything can happen. Salmonella outbreaks continuously occur, its causation is known but sometimes not the easiest to prevent, the signs and symptoms can be easily read and a cure is known. Salmonella is a gram negative bacilli bacteria that commonly effects multiple people all over the world. Studies done by the CDC report that 1.2 million cases occur annually in the United States and of that 1.2 million, 450 are reported fatal. Infection occurs when a person ingests the bacteria usually through undercooked or contaminated food. Other ways could include not washing your hands after touching an animal or using the restroom and putting those hands on food and easting it. This bacteria, once someone is infected, can experience acute gastroenteritis, which gives diarrhea, abdominal cramps, fever, and even nausea. Salmonella is typically …show more content…
According to their research (CDC, 2015), the antibiotics that it was now resistant to were ampicillin, streptomycin, sulfisoxazole, and tetracycline. Even though there were no deaths caused by the hand of this outbreak, people were very lucky that this bacteria did not spread to other parts of the body. This would have resulted in harder treatment for those infected in other parts of the body which would then lead to a higher fatality