Credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH
E-coli Sicknesses
Escherichia coli O157:H7 is a leading cause of foodborne illness. You are able to get bad cramps. And it can cause kidney failure.This piticular E-coli [picture] is also able to destroy your blood cells. Based on a 1999 estimate, 73,000 cases of infection and 61 deaths occur in the United States each year. In the ten CDC Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) sites (which represent 15% of the US population), there was a 29% decline in E. coli O157:H7 infection since 1996-98.
Credit: Rocky
Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH
Ecol-I Sicknesses