In the meantime, the government effort to educate cooks about handling eggs will continue, and state and federal health officials hope the Salmonella enteritidis rates will keep declining.
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If these efforts do not reduce illnesses caused by Salmonella enteritidis-tainted eggs, the day may come when every egg in America is either irradiated, pasteurized or produced by a vaccinated chicken.
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The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that only one in every 20, 000 eggs is infected with salmonella enteritidis, a strain of bacteria easily killed if eggs are thoroughly cooked.
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The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta estimates that between 1985 and 1998, the years Salmonella enteritidis was considered to be at epidemic levels, it was a factor in 79 deaths.
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By its own estimates, the government believes that only 1 in 20, 000 eggs contains Salmonella enteritidis, which can be killed simply by cooking eggs so they are no longer runny.
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In an effort to stop the spread of a relatively new bacteria called Salmonella enteritidis, or SE, the federal government is in the process of writing a series of new egg laws.
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Fruits and vegetables are liable to have microbiological contamination, such as with the bacteria of Escherichia coli O157 : H7, Salmonella enteritidis and Listeria monocytogenes, perhaps due to a post harvest mishandling.
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In the test, unveiled last week, the blood, drug or food sample is mixed with bacteriophages which are known to detect a target organism such as Salmonella enteritidis, which causes severe food poisoning.
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An estimated one in every 20, 000 eggs is infected with salmonella enteritidis, a significant source of food poisoning since the 1980s that can cause diarrhea, fever, abdominal cramps, headache, nausea and vomiting.
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The Department of Health and Human Services reported last month that the number of cases involving salmonella enteritidis _ the type of bacterium associated with eggs _ dropped 44 percent between 1996 and 1998.
