Salmonella Food Poisoning Cause
There are many types of Salmonella to be responsible for food poisoning. These Salmonella germs are of the same family as those which cause typhoid but typhoid is a disease of man only, whereas 'Salomella' germs affect both animals and men.
Source of Salmonella Food Food Poisoning
Most of the germs come originally from animals via badly processed foods of animal origin, or foods contaminated by animal excreta; such things as powdered egg, which bakers use, and any partly cooked meat products, and unpasteurized milk.
Once a care has occured, that person, or any symptomless carriers, may spread the disease, but mostly the germs get spreaded by rats, mice, ducks, hens, tortoise, cows etc.
Salmonella Route
Either the food is contaminated in the beginning, if it is an animal product, or it is contaminated by animal excreta and not 'sterilized' properly, or the food handler, for example the baker, the cook, the milkman, touches the food with dirty hands, i.e with hands still dirty after excreting and not washing them thoroughly afterwards.Susceptibles. Anyone who eats this contaminated food is susceptible.
Treatment. Choramphenicol and plenty of fluids.
Salmonella Food Poisoning Prevention
There is no vaccine, and isolation is not practical. The disease can be prevented only by:1. All food handlers should wash their hands after excreting, and not to prepare food if they are ill or have a diarrhoeal disease themselves.
2. Compelling all large suppliers of milk to pasteurize the milk efficiently.
3. By rat-proofing or using other rat control measures, preventing them from breeding around kitchens and stores.
