So a five pound tub of peanut butter in Minnesota might be linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 400 throughout the country. The distributor: The either awesomely or embarrassingly named King Nut (the have issued a recall). Lileks digs into the subject a little. The CDC tells us just what salmonella is anyway.
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16 Reader Comments
1:43 pm
You don’t ever EVER want to get salmonella. Not ev-ar.
1:56 pm
Was it salmonella St. Paul?
2:27 pm
Supposedly inside the guts of Iguanas lurks the dreaded salmonella. This can infect its human handler via fecal matter transfer (wash those hands kiddies.) I’ve never had a problem with it.
2:35 pm
Douglas, I think the amount on lizards is small enough for a healthy adult’s immune system to fight off.
3:01 pm
But don’t let a Komodo Dragon bite you. Their saliva is one nasty brew of toxic bacteria.
3:06 pm
Alie, unless you eat the poop straight — I’m guessing…
3:06 pm
That’s a problem with tiger bites as well.
Actually, now that I think on it, the problem with bites from a Komodo dragon or a tiger is that OH MY GOD A TIGER OR A KOMODO DRAGON IS ATTACKING YOU.
3:09 pm
Sharon Stone’s husband, an editor for one of the San Francisco newspapers got a toe bit off by a Komodo Dragon.
In case you weren’t aware….
3:11 pm
What wouldn’t be clever is thsi: Eating poop.
3:12 pm
*this
3:12 pm
Upon further research, looks like his toe was just crushed and required surgery.
I’ll leave now.
3:18 pm
3:19 pm
Darn. That didn’t work so well.
3:20 pm
3:23 pm
3:24 pm
ah, better