http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/business/04vaccine.html?pagewanted=1&sq&st=nyt&scp=51
The article, “After Delays, a Vaccine Is Tested in Fight Against Tainted Beef”, by William Neuman, was published in the New York Times on December 4, 2009. The article talks about new vaccines being made for animals that will hopefully eliminate the harmful strand of E. coli that is present in them. One man named Jason Timmerman, from
William Neuman seems to be a reliable author as he has written numerous articles for the New York Times. He remains unbiased throughout the articlea as he is simply just stating a way to try to deal with the food poisoning caused by E. coli. He talks about the benefits of using the vaccine and also talks about how it may be a problem, with cost, for example. The author provides a lot of facutal material to help support his ideas. He has quoted various people including a manager of a packing plant and he also provides statistics.
I found this article to be very nteresting and relavant, as we have recently talked about E. coli in class. We have learned about E. coli causing food poisoning and how 0157:H7 is a dangerous strand of it. I think this article was very informative and it is good to hear how people are acting on this problem with E. coli and trying to do what they can to eliminate the harmful bacteria. Hopefully the vaccines will reduce a significant amount of the bacteria within the cattle as hoped. I believe these vaccines for the cattle are a great start in helping eliminate E. coli and food poisoning and even if it may not work on its own, it can definately help.
I found this article very intreaguing, as E.coli has been in the news in recent years, usually as coming from infected cows. I think it is very immportant that these cows be vaccinated, as this precautionary measure will probably help save many human lives. Eventhough it is possible that the vaccine would not wipe out all strains of E.coli, vaccination is still important.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading Courtney's blog, especially since we had just done a Microbiology unit in class...I was able to understand what was being discussed in the article.
Great Article Courtney!!! I think that this is the perfect article because this is what we are doing in class. I found out a lot of interesting things in this article that I did not know before. Although I have known that the bad strain of E.Coli kills a lot of people and is very harmful, I did not know how harmful it really was. In the article, William Neuman says, "The strain is responsible for an estimated 73,000 illnesses and 61 deaths across the country each year." I did not know that people were able to die from E.coli, I just assumed it was a bad case of food poisoning.
ReplyDeleteI also found this interesting because E.coli could affect any of us and that shows how dangerous it is. I have one question. How do scientists test the cows that got the vaccine for E.coli? Is this a test that is done while the cows are still alive?
I think this was a great article and Courtney did a great job finding an article that has to do with our unit.
Interesting article, Courtney! When I read this article and then read your post on it, your summary was very accurate and gave a lot of detail about and great examples of the article. I agree with Emily and Jack and I think it is really cool that scientists are working so hard to releive our country of such a severe problem.
ReplyDeleteThis article does relate very well to our class because we are in the process of studying microbiology. This includes the E. coli bacteria and the diseases it causes. It is really cool that if the cows receive a successful animal vaccine then the meat they produce wont be contaminated and could save thousands of lives!