Salmonella Sushi: 200 Now Sickened, So What Are The Symptoms Of Salmonella Infection?

The sushi-salmonella outbreak just keeps getting worse.

MSNBC reported that now, at least 200 people have become sick from eating salmonella-tainted "tuna-scrape," packaged as "Nakaochi Scrape AA."

"Tuna scrape," which is the name of backmeat from fish bones, is often used in sushi, HuffPost Food reported.

The sicknesses from the sushi have been linked with two different strains of salmonella, including Bareilly and Nchanga; both are considered rare strains, MSNBC reported.

There are more than 2,500 types of salmonella, and some of them have become increasingly drug-resistant over the years because of antimicrobial use in both animals and humans, according to the World Health Organization.

MSNBC reported that there have been no deaths so far linked with this salmonella outbreak, though 28 people have been hospitalized.

The Mayo Clinic reported that symptoms of salmonella infection can last anywhere from four days to a week. Symptoms include diarrhea and vomiting, abdominal pain, muscle pains, having blood in the stool and fever and chills.

However, complications can occur from salmonella infection, particularly in people like older adults, kids, people who have received organ transplants, pregnant women and people whose immune systems otherwise are weakened, the Mayo Clinic reported. Complications include becoming dehydrated (due to the diarrhea), bacteremia (which is when the salmonella makes its way into the bloodstream and infects tissues and bones), and reactive arthritis (which causes symptoms of pain when urinating, joint pain and eye irritation).

WebMD reported that there are about 40,000 reported cases of salmonellosis each year in the U.S., though not everyone who gets it reports it (so the number may be as much as 30 times higher).

Salmonella doesn't usually have to be treated, as it goes away on its own after a few days, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, if a person has been severely affected and is dehydrated because of the infection, intravenous fluids may be necessary for rehydration. Antibiotics might also be necessary if infection spreads elsewhere in the body.

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Comments

[rikadarling]

10:08 AM on 04/30/2012

I cured a case of salmonella in myself using silver tetroxide.... a form of ionic/colloidal silver. It cured me in about 4 or 5 hours. My case was caused by eating contaminated chicken. It was getting worse by the minute.

[jgamble28]

03:22 PM on 04/29/2012

I think sushi is disgusting. I would never eat it. To me it would be like eating raw chicken or hamberger.

[Huffcourse]

11:37 PM on 04/27/2012

We know not what we eat.

Cause they won't tell us, decieve us or straight out lie.

How about that hamburger from any fast food joint?
Domino's calls it cheese but all cheese is not created equal.
Pizza Hut uses the wording Sausage Topping cause it aint sausage. Bet you didn't know that!
Your loco grocer uses red dye on the meats in the case and this is supposed to be fresh?

This subject could fill an Encyclopedia Brittanica.

And some don't care; Pass the sour cream flavored chips please. Sure would you like some more cool refreshing carbonated artificially flavored diet soda?

[Huffcourse]

11:00 PM on 04/27/2012

Avoid airport food

Airport eateries are typically under the control of a single company. Logisticly and security speaking you can see the need for this since dozens of independents would over burden the system. Food is mainly preprepared and assembled in quick form fashion in a central commissary and distributed throughout the terminals to meet the time constraints of passengers both originating and making connecting flights. I am not saying that every effort and precaution is not taken to ensure food safety but here is the but. A major factor of Food borne illness is TIME and TEMPERATURE. Foods are made in advance and transporting foods are not in an absolute temperature controled environment. TIME & TEMP.

I have eaten a lions share of airport food and only gotten sick once. But why risk your vacation, and for that matter choose what you eat and where you eat at all times. Raw foods, undercooked foods, and here's a good one, if you feel a restaurant has a lack of business walk out, you want a restaurant that is going through the inventory.

Bon Appetit

[ccdae5]

09:31 PM on 04/27/2012

Anyone who eats raw fish shouldn't be too surprised if they get sick.

[chainsawd1]

04:35 PM on 04/27/2012

I finally mustered up the courage and tried sushi for the first time while on vacation last week. I really liked it too.

Just my luck, I'll probably never have it again after reading this...

[donnamae1956]

01:38 AM on 04/29/2012

I would suggest sticking with veggie rolls instead. I love Sushis too but fish are too risky for me to eat.

[chainsawd1]

04:37 PM on 04/29/2012

Thanks donnamae1956, I will try the veggie rolls.

[LiberalFromDenver]

03:26 PM on 04/27/2012

I had it, about 6 weeks back... or at least I had all the same symptoms. I lost about 20 pounds in 3 days. Your body consumes itself in the process of fighting the little beasties. I used to find it hard to fathom that people could die from dysentery, but I totally believe it, now. There has been one upside, though: I used to be very lactose intolerant, but I can eat all forms of milk products, now... which explains why I've pretty much gained back what I lost. :)

[Superunknown0208]

03:16 PM on 04/27/2012

This is not a new story. Are you telling me people are still eating it after knowing this? This has been out for weeks.

[jarjax1632b]

02:39 PM on 04/27/2012

I'm not scared of no drug resistant bacteria, bring it on baby. Worst that will happen is I shidt a few extra pounds off and further reveal my marvelously shaped body.

[teejayc2003]

03:02 PM on 04/27/2012

wow

[diabalos76]

03:53 PM on 04/27/2012

Or you can go on to get "kidney dysfunctions" later in life from having to deal with the filtering of such a hazardous infection along with the impurities created from it with Dr's scratching their heads as to why. Puffy hands, feet, and face could be your new norm. Weight lost during sickness or infection comes back too. Try a bottle of ipecac a few times a week instead because with salmonella, it's both ends that get put to furious use. Hope you're being sarcastic

[majbjb]

12:26 PM on 04/27/2012

Wow, what a surprise, eat raw fish and get sick. Who would of thought..!?

[snakemon]

11:07 AM on 04/27/2012

I lived on a sea wall in the Ryuku's for several years in the 70's my neighbors served sushi a few times a year.Most of the fish we ate were at least lightly steamed wraped in kelp.I tried sushi here in the USA several years ago and gagged --- not fresh -- yuck I spat it out!!The other people thought it was great.It was nothing like the raw fish we had from the China Sea.
Sorry I fail to see the need to eat raw fish so often it aint cool or chic just gross,good luck y'all.

[luvcedarpoint]

11:06 AM on 04/27/2012

I got food poisening 1x in my life and I honestly wanted to DIE!! uck
wasnt sushi either

[Rad666]

09:57 AM on 04/27/2012

"some of them have become increasingly drug-resistant over the years because of antimicrobial use in both animals and humans" ----- Has evolution or a god allowed the salmonella to improve its ability to survive?

[jarjax1632b]

02:34 PM on 04/27/2012

Neither! Absolute random chance created and maintains everything in existence.

[chaucer1]

09:53 AM on 04/27/2012

Haoles shouldn't eat sushi; it's the Emperor's revenge.

[beth24]

02:44 AM on 04/27/2012

This is God, the Higher Power, whatever YOU want to call it trying to tell stupid and selfish people that we are over-fishing the oceans and it has to STOP. Sushi should be eaten infrequently like the delicacy that it is not served up everywhere for profit, one can now get sushi in convenience and big box stores...how disgusting is that? fish are slaughtered and many species now becoming extinct! humans are selfish crass creatures who are gluttons, evil. also if there weren't 7 billion on the planet, maybe people could have sushi more often but not now, sorry it serves people right for being so mindless and selfish!

[missy070203]

12:32 PM on 04/27/2012

haters gonna hate

[Huffcourse]

11:02 PM on 04/27/2012

How did you get 72 fans?