Bathtub cheese, homemade cheese made in bathtubs is spreading a rare drug resistent strain of tuberculosis. The rare strain has been traced to illegally unpasteurized diary products including tainted queso fresco cheese. Hardest hit are the Hispanic immigrants in Southern California. Fearing a comeback of this rare strain that was almost completely irradicated in the US in the 1900s.
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The Salmonella outbreak in the west adds another county in Texas to its list of confirmed salmonella poisoning from tomatoes. Even though the FDA declares that Texas and New Mexico grown tomatoes is not the source of the illnesses. State health department sources still urge people to limit raw tomato consumption to Cherry tomatoes and Grape tomato varieties. The CDC has reported 56 Salmonella cases in Texas and 55 in New Mexico.
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