BARFBLOG: TomKat buys fish tank for Jlos twins: can you say Salmonella? - (barfblog)
February 28, 2008 – 8:28 pmhttp://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/02/articles/salmonella/tomkat-buys-fish-tank-for-jlos-twins-can-you-say-salmonella/index.html
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ntertainmentWise is reporting that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes wanted to create a splash for Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthonys new twins so they bought a fish tank.
http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news?id=40839
A source tell the Daily Star, Tom and Katie wanted to get them something different and special so they thought a giant fish tank would be great.
Australian researchers reported in the March 2006 issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases that a multidrug-resistant strain of Salmonella paratyphi B sent some children to the hospital with high fever and bloody diarrhea. Investigators used DNA fingerprinting to trace the source to fish tanks in the patients’ homes.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol12no03/05-1085.htm
The N.Y. Times quoted the researchers as saying,
“The fact that 12 to 14 percent of Australian households have ornamental fish and as many as 12 million American and 1 million Canadian families own domestic aquariums, together with the young age of most affected patients,” make the risk of contamination from the […]
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http://www.extension.iastate.edu/foodsafety/news/fsnews.cfm?newsid=24593
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