Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Salmonella, many of which are pathogenic, causing food poisoning, typhoid, and paratyphoid fever in humans and other infectious diseases in domestic animals.
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- noun Any of several
rod -shaped bacteria , of the genusSalmonella , that causefood poisoning and other diseases
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- noun rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; cause typhoid fever and food poisoning; can be used as a bioweapon
Etymologies
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Examples
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Even eggs should be washed as the salmonella is also on the outside of the egg as well as the inside.
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Because salmonella is seldom distributed evenly in any lot of beef, "94% of the time, I won't find it even though it's there," Marsden says of testing.
Why a recall of tainted beef didn't include school lunches 2009
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Well, salmonella is totally unaffected by refrigeration -- I'm sure you're right that there's a mental association, but it's baseless.
I am not the weird one here. karenhealey 2010
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Because little boys catching salmonella is just boys being boys, apparently.
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You have more of a chance of contracting e coli or salmonella from the groceries (meats and veggies) in stores right now than CWD from deer meat.
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Maybe next week we see Michael suffering from salmonella from the raw chicken being on his face.
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I have heard that salmonella is a lot more common in the modern US than at other times and places due to industrial farming conditions and whatnot.
I am not the weird one here. karenhealey 2010
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You have more of a chance of contracting e coli or salmonella from the groceries (meats and veggies) in stores right now than CWD from deer meat.
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Sure, some people will tell you that salmonella is named after a Dr. Salmon who discovered it, but let's face it, that's what they want you to believe.
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These children are NOT going to eat an egg which has sat out for any length of time, not unless salmonella is part of your holiday plans.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: MYRA AND GILLAM Maggie Jochild 2007
chained_bear commented on the word salmonella
"By the late 1960s, however, Mexico had hopes of a much greater cochineal revival. Demand for the dyestuff was growing in North America and Europe, as a consequence of the wider vogue for natural foods. Even a New York City outbreak of salmonella that was eventually traced to contaminated cochineal from Peru did not dampen enthusiasm for the dyestuff, in part because synthetic dyes were increasingly being linked with a more dreaded disease: cancer. ...
In the early 1970s, public fears reached fever pitch when Russian research indicated that one of these dyes--known as amaranth or Red No. 2 in the United States, and as E123 in Europe--was a carcinogen. ... The United States Food and Drug Administration banned its use in foods, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics in 1976."
Amy Butler Greenfield, A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire (New York: Harper Collins, 2005), 243.
October 6, 2017