Human Food Diseases
What is Samoella?
What kind of animal are humans?
What are amino acids?
A disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans through contaminated beef.
Protozoan disease carried by animal feces causes diarrhea, which is common in cattle (and other ruminants) and causes scours (diarrhea).
What is Giardia?
Milk and eggs.
What are some nutrient-dense foods?
Disease outbreaks due to unsanitary and unprocessed food.
Why is the American public concerned about food safety?
Flu-like symptoms.
What are the symptoms of brucellosis in humans?
Protozoan disease is believed to be caused by animal feces. Causes severe diarrhea. Common in confined cattle (fecal contamination of water sources).
Red meat contains myoglobin.
What is the difference between red and white meat?
Changes in genetics, including the size of animals such as chickens and swine (both have increased in size over the past 50 years).
What are some big changes in food products?
Bison --> Elk --> Cattle
How does brucellosis get transmitted to cattle?
Infects the large intestine, causes kidney failure, and causes diarrhea. Traced to animal products such as undercooked beef and raw milk.
What is E. coli?
What causes CHD?
The degeneration of nervous tissue in the brain causes a severe neurological disorder ending in death.
What is Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Mad Cow Disease (BSE)?
It is believed to have originated in cattle.
Similar to Salmonella, a major contributor to food poisoning. Found in poultry. Causes diarrhea in poultry.
What is Campylobacter?
High consumption of fats is generally correlated to an increased risk of cancer.
Can high consumption of fats cause cancer?
Chronic wasting disease in wildlife/deer scrapies in sheep, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), and Kuru (common with cannibalism) in humans.
What are other forms of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE)?
Eliminated grazing on the borders of Yellowstone Park, reduced/discouraged bison leaving the Park, controversial efforts to relocate bison.
What efforts are being made to contain brucellosis?