Sorry guys for the late post....I've been at my inlaws for dinner, and very lovely it was too! Anyway todays picks are 17 and 21! Surely today there must be a winner!!
17 Salmonella Typhimurium
The second most common cause of food poisoning by the well known bacteria Salmonella is due to Salmonella Typhimurium (The most common is caused by Salmonella Enterica found in infected chickens). As its name suggests, it can also cause a typhoid-like disease in mice. This particular bacteria is not to be confused with the other Salmonella on the list, its close relative, Salmonella Typhi, that is the causative agent of a much more serious condition. The symptoms of S. Typhimurium poisoning are diarrhoea, abdominal cramps, vomiting and nausea, these symptoms can last up to 7 days. Unfortunately, in immunocompromised people, that is the elderly, young, or people with depressed immune systems, salmonella infections can be fatal if they are not treated with antibiotics
21 Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is an infectious bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs. If not treated properly it can be fatal. It is transmitted from person to person via droplets from the throat and lungs of people with the active respiratory disease. A person needs to inhale only a few of these germs to become infected.
About one-third of the world's population has latent TB, which means people that have been infected by the TB bacteria but are not (yet) ill with disease and cannot transmit the disease. People infected with TB bacteria have a 10 % lifetime risk of falling ill. However people with compromised immune systems, such as people living with HIV, malnutrition, diabetes or smokers, have a much higher risk of falling ill.
When a person develops active TB (disease), the symptoms (cough, fever, night sweats, weight loss etc.) may be mild for many months. This can lead to delays in seeking care, and results in transmission of the bacteria to others. People with active TB can infect up to 10-15 other people through close contact over the course of a year and without proper treatment up to two thirds of people with this form of TB will die.
• TB is second only to HIV/AIDS as the greatest killer worldwide due to a single infectious agent.
• In 2010, 8.8 million people fell ill with TB and 1.4 million died from TB.
• Over 95% of TB deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, and it is among the top three causes of death for women aged 15 to 44.
• In 2009, there were about 10 million orphaned children as a result of TB deaths among parents.
• TB is a leading killer of people living with HIV causing one quarter of all deaths.
• Multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) is present in virtually all countries surveyed.
That nudges me up to 9/10 (The closeset I've gotten yet!)
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