http://www.marlerblog.com/ Food Poisoning Lawyer & Attorney : Bill Marler : Marler Clark en Copyright 2012 Wed, 16 May 2012 05:04:09 -0800 Wed, 16 May 2012 05:04:09 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss This is extremely interesting to me right now. You may think I am crazy, but I think this may explain what just happened to my German Shepard. I am serious. I feed him a raw and home cooked diet balanced properly for canine health. Two weeks ago I bought ground turkey which was half price at the supermarket. I cooked it. According to the article you posted cooking does not kill this bug. I didn’t eat it because I don’t eat ground meat of any kind. I gave him three meals of the turkey and by the third meal he became acutely ill. He had extreme abdominal pain to the point of whining and dogs don’t typically show that they are ill. So crying means there is a serious problem. He had bloody globs of stomach membrane in his watery stool (pseudomembranous colitis), fever and vomiting. An emergency vet visit and $700 later, the diagnosis was simply a colitis attack. He has never ever had this problem. I never feed him ground meat but did this time because it was such a good sale and I figured if I cooked it would be fine. It started at 4am the evening he had the third meal of the ground turkey. The vet prescribed the metronidazole but it is not approved for use in dogs (vets use in anyway) and the potential side effects are so hideous in dogs I did not give it. 10 days later, he is improved. Isn’t that interesting? We couldn’t figure out why the heck this happened and now I think it was the bacteria in the ground turkey referenced in your article.

]]> http://www.marlerblog.com/case-news/40-percent-of-grocery-store-meat-sampled-has-superbug-clostridium-difficile-c-diff/#8429 http://www.marlerblog.com/case-news/40-percent-of-grocery-store-meat-sampled-has-superbug-clostridium-difficile-c-diff/#8429 Case News Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:38:05 -0800 marler@marlerclark.com (Food Poisoning Attorney) Once again ... holy cow!

]]> http://www.marlerblog.com/case-news/40-percent-of-grocery-store-meat-sampled-has-superbug-clostridium-difficile-c-diff/#8430 http://www.marlerblog.com/case-news/40-percent-of-grocery-store-meat-sampled-has-superbug-clostridium-difficile-c-diff/#8430 Case News Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:38:05 -0800 marler@marlerclark.com (Food Poisoning Attorney)