Are There Ways To Eat Eggs Safely ?

The article below tells us how to safeguard ourselves against the salmonella outbreak even while we continue to eat eggs.
Pasteurization eliminates salmonella. Apparently Davidson's Safest Choice eggs use an all-natural pasteurization process. They proclaim that consumers can even eat their eggs over easy and avoid food poisoning.
Just be cautious!
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Is it safe to eat eggs?
September 2nd, 2010 6:08 am PT  Palm Springs fountain of youth | Examiner.com

The local outbreak of salmonella tainted eggs has caused suspicion on the safety of the United States egg supply. Many people are asking, 'Is it safe to eat eggs?'

The Centers for Disease Control continues to issue a warnings to consumers not to eat recalled eggs. 'Recalled eggs might still be in grocery stores, restaurants, and consumers' homes', reports the CDC. The CDC also advices that consumer only eat fully cooked eggs: both yolk and whites are hardened.

Pasteurization eliminates salmonella. Davidson's Safest Choice eggs use an all-natural pasteurization process. They proclaim that consumers can even eat their eggs over easy and avoid food poisoning.

News reports from Palm Springs radio station Mix 100.5 stated that the recalled eggs will not be wasted but will be pasteurized and used commercially in ice cream, mayonnaise and other foods.
Egg Beaters liquid eggs say that they only use "pasteurized liquid eggs and there is no risk to any of our products."
Health experts state that eggs are a good source of protein and provide nutrients our bodies need. Dr. J. Mercola, D.O. writes that raw eggs are one of best sources of high-quality nutrients and that the pasteurization process destroys these vital nutrients. The best, nutritional and safest eggs to eat are locally grown, organic, and cage free.

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Superbugs Are A Threat To Our Hospitals

 Hospitals are constantly fighting the threat of superbugs and the addition of this new one will just make things scarier still. The fact that many doctors still treat most infections with antibiotics, is a huge contributing factor to creating these resistant bugs. Read more in the article below.
  
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Expert warns of superbugs threat to UAE hospitals: 
Asma Ali Zain 31 August 2010, 10:58 PM

The number of ‘superbugs’ or bacteria resistant to common antibiotics is increasing each year in hospitals in the UAE, according to a surveillance programme.

While calling for more effective infection control measures in local hospitals, an expert has said the threat from superbugs is constant but in most cases it is either hospital or speciality specific.

Attributing the increase in the number of superbugs to abuse of antibiotics within hospitals, he said there was not enough compliance within the healthcare system.

“Doctors within hospitals are prescribing unnecessary antibiotics that is wiping out sensitivity and increasing resistance against bacteria,” said Dr Ashraf Mahmoud El Houfi, Chairman of the Infection Control Committee UAE. “If someone has a sore throat, he will take an antibiotic either over-the-counter or ask the doctor to prescribe it. This builds resistance,” he said

A central Infection Control Programme set up under the Dubai Health Authority and implemented in Dubai’s main hospitals including Rashid Hospital, Al Wasl and Dubai Hospital have been seeing a constant increase in the number and percentage of infections over the past three years.

The expert also says that fear arising from reports of the new superbug New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM-1) are largely unfounded. “This is not a new discovery since bacteria have been fighting for their survival since the 1950s when the first such discovery was made,” he said.

According to a study in the Lancet Infectious Diseases Journal, the strain may have originated in India and spread to parts of the world. If it jumps between strains of bacteria then untreatable infections could spread from patient to patient, fear experts.

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NDM Superbug - Conspiracy against Indian health tourism?

A report published in British medical journal, Lancet Infectious Diseases has stated that NDM is becoming more common in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan and is also being imported to Britain and other countries in patients returning after treatment from these countries. Indian authorities are describing it as a big conspiracy against Indian health tourism which is growing at a fast pace.
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NDM Superbug: A conspiracy against Indian health tourism

Mon, Aug 30, 2010 15:45:59 IST 

"SUPERBUG CONTROVERSY has been hitting the media headlines for past one month. The debate is going on whether it was a conspiracy against Indian health tourism or excessive use of antibiotics. The report published in latest issue of British medical journal, Lancet Infectious Diseases stated that antibiotics have proved so far ineffective in case of a bacterial gene, named New Delhi Metallo-1 or NDM, which was found in patients travelling to south Asia for medical treatment. It has ignited a controversy in Indian medical circles."

The report has stated that NDM is becoming more common in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan and is also being imported to Britain and other countries in patients returning after treatment from these countries. The issue has caught the attention of ruling as well as Opposition parties,  who have joined hands in describing it as a big conspiracy against Indian health tourism which is growing at a fast pace. D Raja of Communist Party of India has described it a conspiracy of developed countries.

Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Gulam Nabi Azad quickly described the report as motivated and conspiracy against Indian health tourism. Its naming after New Delhi has raised suspicion about the motives of the authors of the report. Union Health Minister for state Dinesh Diwedi speaking on the issue has stated that it is a global phenomenon and we are concerned about it adding that it is certainly not area or country specific. The director general of Indian Council of Medical Research, V M Katoch has also clarified that there is no basis to all the rumours spread due to the report.

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