Pork-pocalypse almost 70% of pork contaminated with ... yuck?

It's the end of the world as we know it.  First a potential world-wide bacon shortage, now this?  I might suggest this is how to get consumers to Stop Purchasing Pork.

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Beware when you head for the meat market: Consumer Reports yesterday announced that 69 percent of all raw pork samples tested were contaminated with the dangerous bacteria Yersinia enterocolitica. Product testers analyzed 198 samples of whole and ground pork and found them to contain the little-known bacteria, which causes fever and gastrointestinal illness with diarrhea, vomiting, and stomach cramps.

Cases of infection by Yersinia enterocolitica are estimated to top 100,000 a year in the U.S., but experts say that for every case diagnosed, 120 more aren’t reported, attributed to stomach flu or general food poisoning.

Creepiest of all, the study found that many of the bacteria found in the pork were resistant to multiple antibiotics, suggesting that current methods of protecting meat from bacterial contamination are insufficient to deal with evolving mutations.

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