E. coli: Symptoms typically start three to four days after consuming contaminated food or water. The Shiga toxin-producing form of E. coli, the strain identified in the McDonald’s outbreak, causes ...
Johne’s disease, pronounced Yo-knees, is a chronic disease of severe, watery diarrhea and weight loss in adult cattle caused by a bacterium. These bacteria are very hardy due to a ...
Introduction The Bristol Stool Form Scale (BSS) which consists of 7 photographs of different stool forms allows assessment of stool consistency (scale 1 for hard lumps to scale 7 for watery stools), ...
It causes acute watery diarrhea, (watery stool), and if left untreated can lead to death within hours. Other symptoms may include, vomiting and abdominal cramps. “In collaboration with its ...
Several years ago, I was giving a talk at the Association of Health Care Journalists’ conference in Boston. My talk was primarily an overview of where ...