I think the national budget should be cut back a little on the military and put a little more on health because right now the discretionary spending for 2015 health is only at a %5.93 as for military it is at %53.71 Who knows, one day the pet turtle your kid has could give him salmonella. Small turtles may be cute but they are making people sick. That was the warning from U.S. federal health officials on Wednesday.Between January 2015 and April of this year there have been four separate multi-state outbreaks of salmonella associated with touching turtles smaller than four inches long.In all, 133 individuals in 26 states have become sick. Thirty-eight of those individuals were so ill they were hospitalized, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Numbers are expected to rise. cnn.com/…/05/19/health/salmonella-turtles
Something little has become something serious in the past year. Salmonella is commonly found in raw food products that come from animals, such as eggs, egg products, meat, meat products, unpasteurized milk, or other unpasteurized dairy products. Thorough cooking and processing effectively kills salmonella bacteria. But this new discovery was made that is was found to be coming from turtles as well. Some of the symptoms of salmonella are
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Abdominal cramps
- Diarrhea
- Fever
- Chills
- Headache
- Blood in the stool
“Initial investigations have identified four turtle farms in Louisiana as potential sources of the turtles linked to these 2015 outbreaks. Pond water testing from the four farms resulted in the identification of additional non-outbreak Salmonella isolates,” the World Health Organization http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/19/health/salmonella-turtles/index.html
