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The Rise of an Invisible Enemy (Salmonella) in the United States
ISSN: 2582 - 6751
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The Rise of an Invisible Enemy (Salmonella) in the United States
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Publisher: Athenaeum Scientific Publishers
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Abstract
Background: 1945 marked the end of World War II; however, the United States was unaware of an upcoming battle with an invisible pathogen which would linger for decades to come. The war’s conclusion meant thousands of troops returning to the United States. It was quickly realized the need for urgency in shoring up food production. To keep pace with the increasing population, farms and slaughterhouses took sanitary shortcuts. This led to an increasing food contamination which resulted in the emergence of zoonotic diseases across the country. One of those pathogens realized, from the transference between domesticated animals and humans, was Salmonella. Due to the widespread spikes in illness, in 1962, the government created the National Salmonella Surveillance System to monitor laboratory confirmed illnesses via the information provided by states and county cases. This intra-country tracking system which is still in existence feeds data ...
