Poultry and Paralysis
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2012-04-13

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DESCRIPTION: A neuropathic strain of the fecal bacteria Campylobacter found in poultry can trigger Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rapid and life-threatening paralysis. Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at ‪http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/poultry-and-paralysis/ and I'll try to answer it! How common is fecal contamination of retail chicken? See Fecal Residues in Chicken (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fecal-residues-on-chicken/), and for meat in general, my video Fecal Bacteria Survey (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fecal-bacteria-survey/). And for a discussion of other neurological conditions that may be linked to poultry consumption, see yesterday's video (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/poultry-exposure-and-neurological-disease/). There's also a strain of E. coli in chicken that causes urinary tract infections: Chicken Out of UTIs (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/chicken-out-of-utis/). For hundreds of other videos on more than a thousand subjects check out the word cloud (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/).

Image Credit: Medlat, National Cancer Institute, Flip Schulke, De Wood, MrArifnajafov via Wikimedia Commons, and Gino.

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