Gastroenteritis

The World Health Organization (WHO) professes that an estimated five hundred twenty-eight million people have been diagnoses with a foodborne disease, where three hundred fifty-one thousand people have died. Over ten percent of these deaths have been caused by Escherichia coli (E. coli), a bacteria that in most strains causes mild diarrhea, but in more drastic cases can cause as much as vomiting, cramps, and bloody diarrhea. E. coli lives in the intestines of warm-blooded creatures,it is also…

A foodborne outbreak is the occurrence of a similar illness among two or more people which an investigation linked to consumption of a common meal or food items, except for botulism. Foodborne illnesses cause morbidity and mortality in the United States and all across the globe. The amount of foodborne illnesses has greatly increased in industrialized nations due to the amount of changes occurring with the growth of food. Some factors that had led to foodborne illnesses include, changes in…

Patient Initials: XY Age: 60 Sex: M SUBJECTIVE DATA: Client Complaints: Acute abdominal pain after eating with nausea HPI: The patient came in with complaints of acute abdominal pain. He verbalized that his acute onset of abdominal pain started last evening after eating. He is also experiencing a gnawing hunger pain in the umbilical area. He also feels nauseous but no vomiting. He felt warm and sweaty last night that he believed he may have had a fever. His symptoms subsided after he sat…

Norwalk infection, otherwise called winter retching infection, is an infection named after Norwalk, Ohio, in the United States, where a flare-up of intense viral gastroenteritis happened among kids at Bronson Elementary School in November 1968. Infections are ordered into family, class, and species by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), and Norwalk infection is the main types of the variety Norovirus, which has a place with the family Caliciviridae. Some time ago,…

I. Introduction Since the early colonial period of Canada in the 16th century, the role of the church was essential for New France in regards to maintaining birth and death records of the French population (Satzewich, 2015). In Ontario, the Anglican Diocese of Niagara has maintained burial registers from the 19th century, each of which contain information on deaths of residents in the Hamilton, Ontario region. Church ministers held responsibility for transcribing the name, age, cause of death…

Intro The State Health Department became alerted of an outbreak after multiple hospitals reported patients falling ill after eating at local restaurant, “Enviro Taco Bar”. The goal of our investigation was to first create a case definition, to identify cases based on the given case definition, to then identify the causative food item, and then lastly, to identify the biological causative agent of disease, based on clinical symptoms and the environmental conditions.…

Salmonella In our country, our government is very strict on the process of food being checked and being clean. At 1906 the Pure Food and Drug Act would be passed by president Franklin D. Roosevelt. This purpose was to make sure the the public would be safe from the many types of food they consume. Meat Inspection Act in 1906 followed by the Pure Food and Drug Act would also be passed for the same reason as the Pure Food and Drug Act. But recently, major foodborne outbreaks would happen such as…

Escherichia Coli, or E. Coli, are a large and diverse colony of bacteria within the fecal coliforms group – a group of closely related bacterial genera that share the ability to metabolize sugar lactose, producing acids and gas as byproducts – found living harmlessly in warm-blooded organisms’ intestines, the environment, or in various foods (2006). Unfortunately, some forms of E. Coli bacteria are pathogenic, in which the bacteria has developed the ability to cause the disease of the urinary,…

Foodborne illnesses cost the United States billions of dollars each year. There are five major bacterial pathogens that cost the United States the most, which are: campylobacter. E-coli 0157:H7, E-coli non-0157:H7 STEC, Salmonella, and Listeria monocytogenes.According to fightbac.org, salmonella is the most costly, coming to a total of around 2.65 billion dollars each year in the United States. Campylobacter costs the US around 1.2 billion each year as well. People and/or the government spend…

This bacteria are found anywhere in the environment. Basically clostridium perfringens are food poisoning bacteria. Clostridium perfringens is a pathogenic species of clostridium that causes a wide range of disease in humans from a limited gastroenteritis to a myonecrosis termed gas gangrene (Nanney, 2013, Par. 1. They are toxic to humans since they can be found in foods. These bacteria are in…