NEW YORK: Poultry workers may spread E. coli - (Times Leader)
December 25, 2007 – 6:03 pmMelville, NY — Researchers were cited as saying that workers who handle broiler chickens in manufacturing plants are at risk of contracting drug-resistant E. coli and spreading it in communities.
Public health investigators at Johns Hopkins University estimate that workers in poultry factories in the United States are 32 times more likely to be colonized with E. coli that repels the antibiotic gentamicin than other people. The drug is used to treat both poultry and humans.
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