Why certain E. coli bacteria are so bad

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  • Thanks Ritual for sponsoring this video! Click here ritual.com/ADAMRAGUSEA20 to get 20% off your first month of Ritual.
    Thanks to Dr. Carla Schwan, director of the National Center for Home Food Preservation at the University of Georgia Extension: www.fcs.uga.edu/people/bio/ca...
    1977 paper where scientists (arguably) first documented Shiga toxin being produced by certain E. coli strains, whereas the toxin had previously been associated with Shigella bacteria: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
    1983 paper on Shiga toxin producing E. coli outbreak at McDonald's (arguably the first documented outbreak): www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
    CDC data on E. coli outbreaks: www.cdc.gov/ecoli/outbreaks.html
    Other data on E. coli outbreaks came from the National Outbreak Reporting System: wwwn.cdc.gov/norsdashboard/
    CDC data on total foodborne illness burden by pathogen: www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/i...
    Insurance Institute for Highway Safety data on childhood automotive fatalities: www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-...
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  • @aragusea
    @aragusea  ปีที่แล้ว +170

    Thanks again to Ritual for sponsoring this video! I appreciate how they consider bioavailability with their supplements! (Just because you cram it down your gullet doesn't mean your body can use it.) Remember to click here ritual.com/ADAMRAGUSEA20 for 20% off your first month!

    • @ValdVincent
      @ValdVincent ปีที่แล้ว

      You forgot one of the largest sources of E. coli bacteria, shallow wells, maybe not common for the US but super common around the world. Statistically all wells that are less the 50 feet deep contain active E. coli bacteria.

    • @nBasedAce
      @nBasedAce ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Wow, sounds great, until you realize that dietary supplements are not regulated by the government and are not required to be accurate in their labeling. Which means, they can put rice flour in these probiotic supplements and you can't sue them.

    • @michellefanter4671
      @michellefanter4671 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      I really dislike your relationship with Ritual. It always feels sleazy, and taking these supplements has no scientific backing as far as I'm concerned which is a sharp contrast to your usual content, which makes you look like a sell-out instead of a reliable source of information.

    • @mummer7337
      @mummer7337 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thanks Ragussy

    • @peterkracht6621
      @peterkracht6621 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I love your videos Adam, but this kind of thing is pure sellout. Find another way before you lose your credibility.

  • @adambarron4015
    @adambarron4015 ปีที่แล้ว +526

    As QA for a meat production facility, thank you for covering this topic.
    My plant is almost entirely pork so some other good topics to cover would be the parasite Trichinella and the bacteria species Listeria monocytogenes.
    Also there's a fun combo between your last two videos: lactic acid fermentation to prevent pathogens in meat, a.k.a. salame.

    • @gabrielfraser2109
      @gabrielfraser2109 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      A few years ago we had a severe Listeria outbreak in South Africa, with 200 dead - the worst recorded listeria outbreak. Enterprise, a food brand mostly making hot dogs, was the culprit. It took weeks to figure it out, because their products are absolutely everywhere.
      I remember researchers tasked with studying and containing the outbreak complain about the incredible inconsistency of listeria - half a hot dog could be completely clean, while the other half could be contaminated. Knowing definitively where the bacteria was present was a huge challenge.

    • @randomassortmentofthings
      @randomassortmentofthings ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Trichinella's been eliminated in the US, no? I know listeria is big, there was a big "controversy" when the FDA shut down an organic amish beef farm that kept getting Listeria outbreaks. Certain members of society blaming regulation for putting down small business when Listeria has a 10% fatality rate WITH modern medicine.

    • @RexGalilae
      @RexGalilae ปีที่แล้ว

      Pork is a partyhouse for parasites and harmful bacteria lol. He should definitely cover it

    • @Warmaka
      @Warmaka ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gabrielfraser2109 That's where the stomacher comes in.

    • @yellingintothewind
      @yellingintothewind ปีที่แล้ว

      @@randomassortmentofthings Trichinella has been mostly eliminated in factory farms. Not in other sources of pork. The problem is mice and rats are carriers, and pigs are opportunistic omnivores; so if you have a "free range" pig, odds of conamination are not great for anyone eating it raw later.

  • @facundo_r21
    @facundo_r21 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    Kind of an important fact I didn't see in the video. In med school here in Argentina we learned that the receptors that intercact with the toxin are more present in kids, so the official recomendation is to avoid ground beef in kids up to 5 years old.

    • @secret7246
      @secret7246 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      To be honest most things are more dangerous for kids and elders.

    • @crazydragy4233
      @crazydragy4233 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      What an interesting fact. Do you know why that's the case? I guess they have more receptors for better absorption of good stuff?

    • @jzdude01
      @jzdude01 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for this, I’m gonna keep it in the back of my mind for whenever I have kids.

    • @heavenlymilano
      @heavenlymilano ปีที่แล้ว

      I suppose this recommendation against eating ground beef by kids younger than 5 yrs old is by Argentinian authorities?

    • @fantasylover87
      @fantasylover87 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Part of it too is that kids and elderly people generally have a higher stomach pH, which is to say it’s not as acidic as healthy adults. This puts them at higher risk for many fecal-oral transmitted infections.

  • @Mario-fj9wh
    @Mario-fj9wh ปีที่แล้ว +194

    I’m in medical school and this really was a great review of E. coli, shiga toxin, and hemolytic uremic syndrome

    • @ahriik
      @ahriik ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Adam's E. coli review: 3/10, would not recommend unless they're making Vitamin K2 for you.

    • @fountainofspeech1379
      @fountainofspeech1379 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ahriik 😂😂

    • @fountainofspeech1379
      @fountainofspeech1379 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Lol just did these enteric and other positive RNA FROM sketch micro today for medschool today

    • @skpokerface1
      @skpokerface1 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lol same here currently in our GI block and did a double take

    • @thomasa5619
      @thomasa5619 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This comment feels like it belongs on a chubbyemu video

  • @vinidsg
    @vinidsg ปีที่แล้ว +86

    I am impressed that Dr Carla Schwan studied in my hometown here in Brazil. It is awesome that she is a great researcher!

    • @MegaOttaviano
      @MegaOttaviano ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Aaaeee Brasil!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 Voa!

    • @LacerdaIsAWeeb
      @LacerdaIsAWeeb ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Engraçado demais como ela fala em um inglês mt bom, mas ainda tem o jeito BR de falar, pode ver naquela parte em que ela dá um risada, BR até o talo

  • @Harringtone4
    @Harringtone4 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    Awesome video. I was one of the Jack in the Box E-coli kids in Seattle way back when. I was sick in the hospital for a month. I learned a bunch from this video.

    • @62049
      @62049 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Damn

  • @RobbJones
    @RobbJones ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Thanks for this. I actually lost my brother just last month from an E.Coli infection. He was immune compromised and ended up getting it from a salad.

    • @bonnieharris8855
      @bonnieharris8855 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I am so sorry for the pain this is causing you. How awful.

    • @TheBanjoShowOfficial
      @TheBanjoShowOfficial ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That is so unbelievably shitty. It must be frustrating to think that one could die from something as seemingly benign as a salad. I'm very sorry for your loss. This world is chaotic.

    • @helenswan705
      @helenswan705 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sorry to hear this sad thing. And we have more and more immunocompromised people. it's a pity the issue is not straightforward 'it's from meat'. No, and this video explains a lot about why. Cows shitting everywhere. Birds shitting everywhere. In Asia, bats shitting everywhere. Here in UK we have big ongoing problems with sewage discharges into rivers . . .

  • @NamePending9
    @NamePending9 ปีที่แล้ว +195

    The town I'm from in Scotland had one of the worst e. coli breakouts when 21 died from it in 96, it led to big overhauls in food safety in the country.

    • @lwoods507
      @lwoods507 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      I remember that, 21 people died (mainly pensioners who had eaten steak pie at a church lunch and children eating cold meat at a birthday party). All traced back to one butcher in Wishaw who hadn't been following proper safety procedures. It was a horrible, easily preventable tragedy.

    • @regd809
      @regd809 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@lwoods507 On a food hygiene course I was told that they did not know the difference between a biodegradable detergent and a biocidal one. Also were using the same equipment for raw and cooked products. I remember some reference to a 'cloth of the month' so I think they were not changing cleaning cloths appropriately.

    • @DIVISIONBYZEROE
      @DIVISIONBYZEROE ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oi’m sco’ish

  • @timmccarthy872
    @timmccarthy872 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Ways to get shigella'd:
    1. Eat at McDonald's at peak hours
    2. Beseiged

    • @TheBanjoShowOfficial
      @TheBanjoShowOfficial ปีที่แล้ว

      one being far more likely of course, and we know which one that is

  • @robotbanana4261
    @robotbanana4261 ปีที่แล้ว +446

    Babe wake up, new A-Rag video just dropped.

    • @lordofduche4002
      @lordofduche4002 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      A-rag is the best name for A-rag

    • @jeffystevens
      @jeffystevens ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you ever say that again I will begin living in your walls and eating your food in the middle of the night 👺

    • @whyis_hehere6638
      @whyis_hehere6638 ปีที่แล้ว

      He is henceforth called A-rag

    • @Dctctx
      @Dctctx ปีที่แล้ว +8

      She gonna be disappointed if you wake her up for an Adam video.

    • @jeffystevens
      @jeffystevens ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@whyis_hehere6638 I’m in your walls

  • @SimuLord
    @SimuLord ปีที่แล้ว +345

    I once got norovirus while I was homeless on the streets of Seattle.
    I have ever after been an advocate for businesses not restricting access to their bathrooms to people who clearly need to go...now.
    Today, if I got noro, I'd call out sick from work, chained to my bathroom at home.
    Back then, I went _into_ work because it ensured I'd have access to a bathroom.
    Never got E. coli, but I went over 20 years without eating at Jack in the Box because of that 1993 news story.

    • @YounesLayachi
      @YounesLayachi ปีที่แล้ว

      Always a capitalist POV.
      The obvious solution is public restrooms, not forcing business to open their restrooms.
      What's next, you'll advocate for business to open their bookshelves instead of funding actual public libraries ?
      Maybe advocate for house residents to open their backyards instead of having public parks.

    • @etymonlegomenon931
      @etymonlegomenon931 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      There's no such thing as someone who "clearly needs to go now" from a business owner's perspective, there's only people saying they are, and giving up a bathroom offered to customers isn't worth helping people living through a gastric disaster
      If your city is shitty enough that druggies spending their sweet time in the bathroom are a major concern, sorry, but you lost the collective privilege of getting to go when you gotta go

    • @SimuLord
      @SimuLord ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @@etymonlegomenon931 True as that is (and it is absolutely true in Seattle), I acknowledge how fortunate I was that I had a job-long story short, I arrived in Seattle with five bucks in my pocket and the clothes on my back after a crazy year of my life that involved living in five cities and crossing the country along the way and was working my way up to an apartment-because it meant I never had to deal with "restrooms for customers only" as an obstacle after my first few weeks on the street.
      But at the same time, my commute takes me through the same part of Seattle I used to haunt when I was homeless, and I'm not exactly the type to blame the homeless for the literal human shit on the street when they have no other place that will let them relieve themselves. It's like "pick your poison" at some point. And there's something wrong with a society that forces people to make that choice of dropping their pants and taking a dump on the street. Even a dog has someone to clean up after them in the park.
      I'm not saying there's a specific right or wrong solution to the problem, only that speaking from my own experience, if you're going to do business in a neighborhood with a lot of homeless, you're going to have to make compromises. Go do business somewhere else otherwise.

    • @kimjong-oink6217
      @kimjong-oink6217 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      @@etymonlegomenon931 this might be the meanest-spirited take I've ever seen in an Adam Ragusea comment section. Have some empathy: no one with food poisoning deserves to not have a bathroom, regardless of their circumstances in life

    • @etymonlegomenon931
      @etymonlegomenon931 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@SimuLord The correct compromise being, don't kowtow to the homeless, make people pay for shit or get out of your business. Paragraphs of exegesis and backstory do nothing to change this basic truth.

  • @giovanipellin3384
    @giovanipellin3384 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Dr Carla Schwan made my day. I am Brazilian to, from the same state as her, and it was really cool to feel represented. Thanks Adam and Carla

  • @user-uj8og9cm9d
    @user-uj8og9cm9d ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Good topic, I'm a molecular biologist, we routinely use E. coli to amplify plasmids (little circles of DNA) which we then put into different organisms. I've always been assured that the strains we use are non-pathogenic but I've never actually known why.

    • @SimuLord
      @SimuLord ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I can't be the only person who read your comment and instantly thought of Bioshock.

    • @blungus9574
      @blungus9574 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@SimuLord the concept of a plasmid is a portion of dna separate from the main genome, often transferred between bacteria. Which is where bioshock got the term.
      External injection that gives you superpowers instead

    • @science75902
      @science75902 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Many of them are also genetically modified. One very common strain used in the lab is the E. Coli K12 strain. In it important factors for pathogenesis are absent, so you can’t get sick. Maybe you used this one?

    • @user-uj8og9cm9d
      @user-uj8og9cm9d ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We use dh5 alpha for DNA work and Bl21 for recombinant protein production. Though you're right, they are definitely modified and have probably had virulence factors knocked out. I don't know k12 (I mostly work with yeast) but possibly these strains are derived from each other or have had the same manipulations. It's interesting stuff, I'd quite like to work with prokaryotes.

    • @calyxman
      @calyxman ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-uj8og9cm9d I couldn't help but think of Dead Space when I read 'recombinant' in your comment. Cool stuff, by the way, thanks for the info!

  • @Doppioristretto
    @Doppioristretto ปีที่แล้ว +486

    Seeing the work people do when their passion is funded by graduate programs. I’m about a year away from my undergrad but seeing pieces of media like this and my own interaction with my professors reinforces my choice every day. It’s pretty cool how we are just in an edutainment renaissance with digital media now.

    • @100GTAGUY
      @100GTAGUY ปีที่แล้ว +19

      The internet has honestly hands down made education entertaining, I like that lil spin on words too edutainment (which shocked me to see autocorrect knew)
      I've gotten so much knowledge in a wide variety of subjects usually surrounding my hobbies from the web it's not even funny, heck even sourcing parts and equipment has gotten easier too.

    • @leonantoniou6192
      @leonantoniou6192 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Edutainment - never seen that word before but I think it’s now one of my favourites. Thank you

    • @mummer7337
      @mummer7337 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ragussy is the way

    • @helenswan705
      @helenswan705 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      unfortunately we are also in an edu-misinformation epidemic, and how do we poor souls know the difference? I can say 'I trust this channel, he does all that background research for me'. Someone else may have the same faith in a different channel that I would consider rubbish.

    • @nurphurecarnium
      @nurphurecarnium ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mummer7337 please stop

  • @Alyenbird
    @Alyenbird ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I was a kid during the Jack in the Box outbreak. We went to the local Jack in the Box anyway and the staff gave us the full resturant service like Jack was suddenly a sit-down place. They were that delighted to have customers. We weren't worried because we knew they were using different beef and being careful about cooking it.

  • @nasrinatiyeh
    @nasrinatiyeh ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I almost died twice from Shigalosis. This lake where I live is extremely filthy, and the 2 times I went there, I contracted Shigalosis, once when I was 3, and the other when I was 5. I'm 25 now, and I still remember specifically "blacking out" (it was a seizure), and waking up in the hospital with an IV in my arm.

    • @willek1335
      @willek1335 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That sucks. I hope that lake is clearly marked now so new kids don't end up like that.

    • @nasrinatiyeh
      @nasrinatiyeh ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@willek1335 it's labeled as a biohazard now.

    • @fiorettiduseigneurcapybara2492
      @fiorettiduseigneurcapybara2492 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What’s the name of the lake ?

    • @nasrinatiyeh
      @nasrinatiyeh 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@fiorettiduseigneurcapybara2492 Not doxxing myself, sorry.

  • @nordiland2044
    @nordiland2044 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    hey. I just want to share my story with e. coli as a young child. i got it from a contaminated apple. well I was 3 years old in the early 2000s and it started with strong diarrhea and... blood in it. my doctor got me INSTANTLY in to the hospital ( he was one of 2 people who saved my life). within a week things got VERY serious. I had kidney failure, problem with my pankreas. dehydration, still blood in it. a female doctor insisted to get me to a better hospital with a special dialysis. but the others wanted to transport me with a normal ambulance but she wanted to fly me with a helicopter. thanks to german health insurence we could do it. i was reanimated 3 times in the helicopter. within a few weeks I fully recovered. my kidneys are working just fine again. i dont need any medications. but my life was never the same. I had / have serious PTSD. I still have panic attacks when i just think about hospitals. and my imunesystem was terrible for almost 15 year. its better today but i am still sick very often. I was always a slim child but after that i got very overweight. today i am sadly at 150 kg (but i am fighting it now!). i am a total hygiene freak with my hands and i was them at least 15 - 20 times a day.
    but over all i am happy to be allive. these two doctors saved my life and i am so greatfull.
    thank you for this great video
    Pascal

  • @Tinil0
    @Tinil0 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    That '93 outbreak was utterly devastating to Jack in the Box. I'm sure everyone old enough has stories of family refusing to eat at Jack in the Box ever again, or at least for outstandingly long periods of time. Even though it was incredibly geographically isolated, it was certainly the biggest media sensation over a food-borne illness I can remember.

    • @withelisa
      @withelisa ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Right? A friend of mine almost lost her mom, who was hospitalized for weeks. No fast food burger seems worthwhile having seen that firsthand.

    • @SimuLord
      @SimuLord ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It took me until 2013, and then only because my girlfriend at the time lived with her parents and her dad would go grab some food from Jack's when I'd come over. Anything that got me in the good graces of her dad, who was otherwise pretty much Red Forman from That '70s Show, I was willing to do.

    • @jakoblarok
      @jakoblarok ปีที่แล้ว

      And also one of the greatest public-relations flips of all time! I don't usually celebrate the 'marketing industry', but if not for Jack's re-branding and recovery, my friends and i wouldn't have had those delicious, "tacos" to munch on, after long parties in my college years. And my senior year, I started working in the food-service industry; but those Late Night Boxes were a horribl...y good dinner after working a Saturday double, then staying awake the rest of the night to work on a paper

    • @Great_Olaf5
      @Great_Olaf5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'd never even heard of the place...

    • @Tinil0
      @Tinil0 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Great_Olaf5 Where on earth do you live?

  • @typorter-pp6lh
    @typorter-pp6lh ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I got E. Coli poisoning about 10 years ago and it was possibly the most miserable week of my 47-year-old life. Wash your grapes before you eat them!

    • @FutureCommentary1
      @FutureCommentary1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I see people picking raw fruits (like grapes) at the grocery store or farmers market and sampling them. I shudder.

    • @100GTAGUY
      @100GTAGUY ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@FutureCommentary1 it's a bit different if you know the conditions of the fields the food was grown in, down in swfl I wouldn't sample anything because I've seen the workers shitting in the fields with my own eyes. Out in Colorado there's a lot more smaller family farms in my area who take better care of their employees and customers simply because they can't afford to do bad business in a small town. Meanwhile 40 miles east in the bigger cities the farmers are much more concerned with maximizing profits and quantity over quality.

  • @rocknrollmanic
    @rocknrollmanic ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I still remember the E Coli outbreak in Lettuce back in 2017 when I worked for walmart. We tossed EVERY packaged salad and lettuce item we had. Not even employees were allowed to take them, like normal

  • @DaveTexas
    @DaveTexas ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Yeah, about five years ago I got what I thought was a bad case of food poisoning. It got worse very quickly, though, and I went to a minor emergency clinic to see what they could do for me. Turned out my kidneys were shutting down. I was quickly put on an ambulance and then got to spend a week in the ICU of a major hospital. I have an autoimmune disease that has left me with a compromised immune system. While I didn’t get QUITE as sick as some children or elderly people get, I was still quite sick and had to have several rounds of dialysis before my kidneys recovered. They never gave me antibiotics, either, which I didn’t really understand at the time but now I do!
    We never figured out where the bacteria came from, though. No other cases were reported in the area during the time I was hospitalized. It could have been ground beef, or it could have come from raw vegetables that weren’t properly washed. Let’s just say that I wash everything very thoroughly now and I cook ground beef until it’s very, very well-done.

  • @tiborklein5349
    @tiborklein5349 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    I once got infected with norovirus (during the covid pandemic, go figure). I had stomach cramps for a week. I couldn't eat, sleep or focus on anything. Sure, it could have been worse, but that week felt like an eternity. Medications barely worked, even if they did, only for 1-2 hours. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy...

    • @jimjimsauce
      @jimjimsauce ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i had something very similar during covid pandemic. i thought it might have just been a weird case of the vid but now i think it was Noro

  • @purplegill10
    @purplegill10 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I really can't wait for the raw flour video. I tried doing the research myself but ended up with so many dead ends and not even a good conclusion on if heat-treated flour is truly safe or not.

    • @ChefSalad
      @ChefSalad ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm not sure why you'd want to eat raw flour anyway. I've tried it and it's gross. Maybe there's some dish out there that involves it, but I can't, for the life of me, think of one. That's a long way of saying, does it even matter if you're not going to do it anyway?

    • @cyanidenightshade
      @cyanidenightshade ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@ChefSalad heat treated flour is used for edible cookie dough, so while maybe you don't wanna eat it raw on its own, there are applications for heat treated flour

    • @purplegill10
      @purplegill10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ChefSalad Raw cookie dough is probably the most common

    • @ChefSalad
      @ChefSalad ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@purplegill10 That answers my question. And also sounds kind of gross to me, but I can see how some people might like it. To each their own, I guess.

    • @fwizzybee42
      @fwizzybee42 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I’m definitely interested as well. It’s not so much that I want to eat raw flour (I have had raw cookie dough but I don’t make it), but just that I’m not really used to treating it as a cross contamination risk. Baking, rolling dough out, we get it all over the place and sure I clean up in the end but I don’t worry if there’s still a bit on my clothes as I go about my business. Heck we used to throw it at each other when I was a kid.
      Then again people used to put raw steaks on their bruises so I guess we all have to change sometimes!

  • @crossmr
    @crossmr ปีที่แล้ว +6

    A few years ago I got something horrible off some frozen yakisoba noodles from Costco. Being a big fan, I was happy to see them for sale at our local costco. I cooked some up, and they tasted fine, but what happened next was anything but fine. I hadn't eaten anything else unusual or risky in the time leading up to this, so I'm fairly confident that it came from these noodles. Luckily it started on a Friday night. I already suffered from IBS, but compared to when I was young, it's much milder now and doesn't usually kick off anywhere near as much. I had never been this ill before and never been this ill since, thankfully.
    I ended up spending the entire weekend on my feet, leaning against a wardrobe in the bedroom near the bathroom. I could not sit down, nor lay down because the change in body position would cause a violent need to get to the bathroom. I slept standing up against the wardrobe/tall dresser. It was the only position that I could really reliably be in that didn't make it worse. I do believe I had access to pepto bismol then and it did nothing to touch this. I mostly got by on sips of water, and the occasional saltine.
    Needless to say, I threw the rest away.

  • @LadyPisces96
    @LadyPisces96 ปีที่แล้ว +208

    How cool it is that Dr. Schwan is Brazilian! Congrats to her on her researches 👏🏻🇧🇷✨

    • @hypercane2023
      @hypercane2023 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Congrats

    • @JimJamSandwich
      @JimJamSandwich ปีที่แล้ว +11

      We don't have to ask her to come to Brazil because she lives there ❤️

    • @CRAZYMENTWERKING
      @CRAZYMENTWERKING ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Brazil ai porraaaaaaa !!!!!!@uhul!!!!!!!!

    • @YounesLayachi
      @YounesLayachi ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ...? What makes it cool ?

    • @etymonlegomenon931
      @etymonlegomenon931 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Nothing could be less cool

  • @CaTastrophy427
    @CaTastrophy427 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I had norovirus 11 times before the age of 16. I'm just the kind of person who will get sick from the smallest exposure to norovirus, even if the person who exposed me isn't symptomatic and never will be from that infection (can you even call it an infection if you're asymptomatic?). The same is true for my dad and my brother, while my mom is seemingly immune to it - never got it once in her entire life, so when we three males in the family were all stuck on the shitter, she was the one getting groceries and cooking meals for all of us. Usually dad was the cook 4~5 days a week, but when the annual norovirus infection rolled around, she took over for a week or so.
    I once got it on the last day of a vacation trip, and ended up probably infecting the entire planeful of people on all three legs of the flight back - and my dad and my brother once I got back, that goes without saying. That time I was still toilet-bound for half a week after the rest were done with it, meaning almost two weeks in total for me. Not fun.

  • @adrianbrave6044
    @adrianbrave6044 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My brother's coworker lost their pre-teen son to Ecoli a few years ago. Crazy how it can just happen. Makes me want to boil everything I eat.

  • @acpe
    @acpe ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Your channel keeps getting better and better. Absolutely love all your content, keep up the GREAT work!

  • @anyascelticcreations
    @anyascelticcreations ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is the only channel where I actually watch nearly all of the promotional bits. You transition so smoothly, and present in such an interesting way, that I watch. Finger hovering over the screen to skip, I end up watching the whole thing. Good job, you!👍

  • @borkbork4124
    @borkbork4124 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I am a food sci major at K-State! Your channel gives me hope and helps fuel my academic passion!

    • @heavenlymilano
      @heavenlymilano ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Great major! I am a PhD in Food Science :)

  • @saratakkoush6109
    @saratakkoush6109 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Just wanna say that Lauren is a breath of fresh air.. i loved listening to both of you guys on the podcast! Its good to have her on every once in a while ! She's adorable!

    • @SimuLord
      @SimuLord ปีที่แล้ว

      Adam's living his best life. Dude's jacked, he's got a smart, attractive wife who loves him to pieces, he's raising his boys well, and he's successful doing something he's passionate about. Hats off to the guy.

  • @sebastianescobar4697
    @sebastianescobar4697 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video adam. The videos with the experts are often really good.

  • @sazji
    @sazji ปีที่แล้ว +4

    When I was in 7th grade, in 1971, the student teacher in my biology class was talking about E. coli, and she said, “This is a bacteria we’re probably going to see problems with in the future.”

  • @NickeManarin
    @NickeManarin ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Adam, when she says “Brazilian Burger”, she’s probably referring to a regional fast-food called Xis (read as “chees”).
    It’s only known in the southern most state (Rio Grande do Sul, where’s she’s from) and maybe in the state up north.
    It’s a delicious fast food, give it a try. Look up for recipes for “Xis-Salada, “Xis-Bacon” or “Xis-Coração” (normal, with bacon or with chicken hearts).
    It’s basically a large, slightly sweet, round bread, cut in half. Inside we put mayo, ketchup, diced tomatoes, peas, corn, fried egg, cheese, burger patty (usually well done, so it’s harder to chew) and the extras (bacon or chicken heart for example). Sometimes there’s lettuce as well, but it gets soggy.

  • @bordershader
    @bordershader ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think people forget e coli doesn't just kill. A friend of mine caught it as a 6-month-old baby, went into organ failure, survived but with permanent kidney damage, and by the age of 30 was on dialysis until receiving a donor kidney at the age of 35. She chose not to have children in case she died and left them motherless. She has to take a cocktail of medicines daily for the rest of her life to prevent rejection, which means her immune system is really compromised and she gets ill all the time, which has led to loads of relationships failing as her partners can't cope. The impact is immense! Really, it's not just about the risk of dying. Thanks for your vid, Adam.

    • @ABc-nu6jb
      @ABc-nu6jb 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wow 😢💯💯 that’s horrible. Wondering if certain ppl also spread it to someone else by certain practices they engage in

  • @Exderius
    @Exderius ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Keep up the great work! ❤️ I just took a 2 day microbiology class, ending yesterday. and we handled ecoli and I was waiting for an Adam Ragusea video

  • @altejoh
    @altejoh ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Around here E.coli comes up more in regards to pork - and because pig manure is a thing farmers like, it also comes up around vegetables and swimming in lakes whenever there's been lots of rain and river flooding. Remember it being a near constant warning and worry growing up in the 90's and 2000's, whereas beef was more concerned with "mad cow disease".

  • @sourlem0ns981
    @sourlem0ns981 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love your food micro videos. Keep it going!

  • @jackg9581
    @jackg9581 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I really appreciate your kitchen scientist approach to youtube uploads. You are the foremost provider of usable content. Thank you!
    Have another "like".

  • @coharn827
    @coharn827 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    And now I’m googling how to properly wash veggies to make sure I’m doing it right.

  • @Tom-rh2so
    @Tom-rh2so ปีที่แล้ว +2

    E coli (type 0157) nearly killed me back in 2006 (I was 6), I live in rural scotland and went to a farm fair with my family, most likely I touched the grass where cattle had been and then ate something with my hands. most people would have been fine but I had undiagnosed celiac disease giving me a weakened immune system, it led into Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome and fully shut down my kidneys. On the plus side my hospital room had a great view of the helipad at my local infirmary, and watching the helicopters (which I later found out were occasionally there to take me to the childrens hospital in glasgow for dialysis, but I always recovered just enough that it wasnt necessary, and they took someone else) but all those hours of watching helicopters land and take off led me to one of my greatest passions, aircraft

  • @muquietto3764
    @muquietto3764 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Adam, your food safety videos are amazing

  • @100GTAGUY
    @100GTAGUY ปีที่แล้ว

    Ooooh man you've been killing it with videos this week

  • @Xeno1798
    @Xeno1798 ปีที่แล้ว

    Side note: Glad you brought up the end of the sponsor spot. The one problem with trying to flow into talking points smoothly is that it's hard for some listeners to be able to tell when said talking point is over and we're back to the main topic.

  • @PumpedChef
    @PumpedChef ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for being an amazing video channel. This is such a great channel!

  • @xpkbrz
    @xpkbrz ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I knew you were from Brazil because that car you’re washing is a Ford Corcel the same color my grandfather had in 1974! Amazing, Dr. Shwan!

  • @krisreddish3066
    @krisreddish3066 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    In Gary Job Corps in the 90s, there was a super bad case of shigella that got every kid sick, we had like a 90 person infirmary with over 800 folks in cots, lined person to person and you know what flowed down the hallway like a small river of stink. Super fun times.

  • @thebigjohn8239
    @thebigjohn8239 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Missed your podcast this weekend

  • @tetsuei5928
    @tetsuei5928 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love that one of the comments about reading entrails to tell the future from an older video made its way into the script.

  • @lizardlasso9924
    @lizardlasso9924 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    As an ecologist it made me so happy to see Adam use the term mutualistic relationship properly

    • @willek1335
      @willek1335 ปีที่แล้ว

      Non ecologist here. What do you mean?

    • @lizardlasso9924
      @lizardlasso9924 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@willek1335 people often use symbiosis to mean a mutualisticly beneficial relationship when symbiosis is an umbrella term. Technically a parasite and it’s host have a symbiotic relationship.A mutualistic relationship is where both organisms benefit.

    • @willek1335
      @willek1335 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lizardlasso9924 Ah I see. So symbiotic is basically a relationship. Mutualistic and parasitic are sub groups that describe what kind of relationship.
      For example, 2 couples can have two relationships, but a mutualistic relationship is one that benefits both partners. A parasitic relationship is one where one gains at the cost of the other. They're both relationships, but different.
      I took that to the human level, simplified, but I guess it sorta makes sense. It's cool that he uses the precise word like that. It tells you he's paying attention to details that other content creators may not see as necessary.

  • @billbrasky7540
    @billbrasky7540 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This was a very good/educational video.
    The only animal flesh I've ever been seriously sick from was chicken, and I got slightly sick from beef one time, and I don't know but for some reason I feel like seafood food poisoning would just be the absolute worst LOL especially if it's ciguatera. That shit cannot only get you super sick like Dr swan, but it can also linger for months and even after it has ran its course, you can't drink coffee or alcohol or eat things like nuts among other things for 6 months after recovery (no booze of caffeine for half a fkn year. That's sht is the devil). it can also cause seizures and other neurological problems on top of the diarrhea and vomiting.
    What's even scarier about that is it is completely undetectable; smell, sight, taste, there's no way to detect it, and there is no method of storage or cooking that can kill it either; flash freezing or frying or cooking the living shit out of it will not kill ciguatera, and so many types of fish carry it.

  • @hunternovak4187
    @hunternovak4187 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I work for a food testing facility and one of our biggest clients is a beef processing facility. Everyday we receive samples from each cow they butcher that day. Testing is completed within 24 hours and results are given to the client. We have no say whether or not they recall or cancel their shipment but our testing is done fast enough so that they have the option to do so if positive samples are found. The type of testing we do is meant to prevent out breaks before they can occur.

  • @kasjahgfhghghgdghghghghghghgg
    @kasjahgfhghghgdghghghghghghgg ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If we have to cook beef to get rid of E. Coli, why does washing lettuce get rid of it so easily?

    • @helenswan705
      @helenswan705 ปีที่แล้ว

      I doubt it does. I mean, wash it, but expect no guarantee.

  • @LilyKittyCatto
    @LilyKittyCatto ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i had norovirus once when i was younger and omg i was so violenty ill it sucked its the worst ive ever felt

  • @QuickM8tey
    @QuickM8tey ปีที่แล้ว

    I didn't expect to watch a video about e. coli today but it was really interesting, thanks

  • @janetmackinnon3411
    @janetmackinnon3411 ปีที่แล้ว

    I learn a lot from you! Thankyou.

  • @patrickmalone1373
    @patrickmalone1373 ปีที่แล้ว

    That segue was fire son. Thumb up well earned.

  • @Sejikan
    @Sejikan ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love how educational this channel is about food, feels like a pbs program

  • @FANKANable
    @FANKANable ปีที่แล้ว

    new to your channel, but I'm loving it

  • @shaderu3402
    @shaderu3402 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I caught E Coli when I was 12. To this day we still don’t know how (I’m a very cleanly person, there weren’t any outbreaks in my area at the time and we rarely ate fast food back then). The CDC actually came by to ask a bunch of questions lol. I guess I was lucky, because while that week definitely wasn’t fun and consisted mostly of me camping out by the toilet waiting for bloody shits, my kidneys were fine and I recovered within the week with no long term issues.

  • @user-op8fg3ny3j
    @user-op8fg3ny3j ปีที่แล้ว

    Very informational !

  • @giveemdasauc3531
    @giveemdasauc3531 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Currently work with Jack in the Box as a food safety advisor and trainer and I can tell you that since the 1993 outbreak there have been massive changes to the way the company operates and those changes were adopted across the board, most notably the development of the HAACP system of frequent and documented checks of the operation daily and the culture change around the handling and serving of beef. Very interesting to see what I work with daily features here!

  • @pscel
    @pscel ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have a food microbiology exam this week so I'll be using this to study

  • @alanomofo
    @alanomofo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I see this becoming an issue since we are now " mechanically tenderizing " steak cuts . They are piercing the meat with needles to tenderize it at the factory . This leads to consumers undercooking steaks not knowing they should cook it to a higher temp .
    Yes even steaks are not 100% safe

  • @klfjoat
    @klfjoat ปีที่แล้ว

    My favorite E. Coli control mechanism I heard about fast food plants doing is if they find contamination, they not only throw away that batch, but also the batch before and the batch after. Just in case.

  • @deleted-something
    @deleted-something ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you for the video

  • @EntheozineBlogspot1
    @EntheozineBlogspot1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Omg you're getting so buff keep up the good work 👏🏽 🙌🏽

  • @halehsasani4730
    @halehsasani4730 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please do episode on how we get rid of phytic acid in grains skin , we are learning a lot from your content, thank you for your efforts ❤

  • @tashima42
    @tashima42 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Salve, doutora!

  • @NicolasLeclerc
    @NicolasLeclerc ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have to say i'm pretty surprised to see adam having a sponsor selling a product so closely related to the topic of the video. So much so that he has to mention that the content outside the explicit ad is not an ad. I'd say it's a sign that it wasn't a great idea.

  • @NotMac
    @NotMac ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Would love a video on C. difficile
    It’s not necessarily food related, but it’s a fascinating bacteria that has an… interesting cure aka “poop transplants”

    • @komocka
      @komocka ปีที่แล้ว

      The related food pathogen Clostridium perfringens is actually used as a naturally occurring leavening agent in salt-rising bread in the Appalachian Mountains

    • @helenswan705
      @helenswan705 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes this is really important and has a high success rate for C. diff, which nothing else attains. back to basics, folks!

  • @JaziTheWolf
    @JaziTheWolf ปีที่แล้ว

    This channel is really interesting with it’s culinary history and science

  • @adrumwhisperer
    @adrumwhisperer ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How about a full episode on botullism? How to test for it? How to avoid it with humidity >10% and no/low oxygen? Can we just air it out? Is there a specifc ph range that is safe? The use of oxygen absorbers or silica packs are how people are looking to long term store food, should we consider something else? nitrogen? This topic is talked about for storage of grains, dried foods, herbs (culinary and medicinal), canning, fermenting, etc... fear of botullism seems to be the first reason anyone is hesitant to start preserving their own food. Can you deep dive for answers?

  • @aaronszymanski123
    @aaronszymanski123 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another banger! Thanks grandpa!

  • @Thedegu
    @Thedegu ปีที่แล้ว

    just listened to the Sawbones EP about E.coli earlier today lol really learning about the little bug!

  • @priscilam.9808
    @priscilam.9808 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was born in the 80s in Brazil. I remember one time I was 5 years old and I was so sick with a stomach virus I had to be taken to the pediatrician at least twice that I remember. And then when I was in my early teens in the early 90s I had a horrific case of stomach virus. And then in 2012 I got a stomach virus after visiting a family member that had stomach surgery. I was gonna comment that and then I saw that she is Brazilian too. I cant say Im surprised. Food safety here was non existent. Food didnt have expiration date until the early 90s.

  • @bobbydazzla4308
    @bobbydazzla4308 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is great I had campylobacter 4 weeks ago, I have been regrowing my gut botanicals and now training my toilet times. When I go to my Inlaws over the drink I get dysentery every time. I work with a client that has helicobacter pylori and he is a big BIG man (Watching a bloke walk around confused or emotional because toilet time is constant and burdening for the body). Heavy lifters will know of the amount of energy used when you're eating and crapping 6 meals a day. It is very important to not only learn of one end but the middle and tail end. Bravo.

  • @kaden219
    @kaden219 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I got e-coil poisoning when I was 14, spent a week in the hospital and took months to recover went from 113lbs to 79lbs, I’m 40 now and have crohns. It’s not something you want to catch.

  • @Vulture2264
    @Vulture2264 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My dad was one of the many that got sick during the Jack in the Box E. coil outbreak.

  • @RustyRedRhombus
    @RustyRedRhombus ปีที่แล้ว

    Watching this with E.Coli rn. Getting the real immersing experience

  • @sarahhardy8649
    @sarahhardy8649 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Here in the Uk, we have certain antibiotics that are supposed to be banned for giving to animals because they form part of treatment for humans who get infected with, for example, salmonella. In dodgy parts of Europe, they are known to give human intended antibiotics to animals. This means that when children and old people get food poisoning, like salmonella, the antibiotics that should work, don’t. This was how it was described to me. People who run chicken farms in the uk, I personally know, have gone abroad to get Baytril and bring it home in their cars as they wanted to treat their flocks. Dodgy af. I tend to cook all my food till it falls from the bone, or I personally know the farmer and the number tag of the beast ( fortunately I live in a rural area) I don’t trust many.

  • @waterdiamonds1713
    @waterdiamonds1713 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can you do a video about oleo-saccharum? I often see confusing and conflicting information about how it's made-- some people claim that solid sugar is pulling essential oil out of citrus peels through osmosis, and I haven't found any good sources on the mechanics for how oleo-saccharum is made, and what the actual composition of the syrup actually is.

  • @azmc4940
    @azmc4940 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I want to assure the public, that even tho some people died in this food poisoning outbreak originating from our restaurants, there is absolutely no concern about the future financial performance of our corporation. You can sleep soundly at night.

  • @clementinemorlat5506
    @clementinemorlat5506 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I had to study biology but your video came up. I mean, still works.

    • @mattfg1168
      @mattfg1168 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      dommage qu'on ait pas de chaine youtube équivalente en français :(

  • @LightxAngelxDark
    @LightxAngelxDark ปีที่แล้ว

    I was actually learning this in my medical lab class! So wild

  • @RebelRhiannon
    @RebelRhiannon ปีที่แล้ว

    The relationship she made between gut bacteria and previous infection and chrons disease was very interesting. Since there is no known cause or known cure. I have very severe atypical case of chrons disease so that really stuck out to me.

  • @helenswan705
    @helenswan705 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you

  • @lazeddonut
    @lazeddonut ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes!!! Looking forward to the e.coli and flour video!!!

  • @robbozzo3068
    @robbozzo3068 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don't know why the small circular happy motion with the probiotic bottle gave me a chuckle. Strong vibes that Adam is actually a funny person IRL

  • @Daniel-Brous
    @Daniel-Brous ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey Adam, could you make a video about the purpose of parboiling and how much it affects the texture and flavor of food? I recently tried a recipe where the beef was parboiled and I'm not sure if that was necessary or how to know if it was. Thanks!

  • @6Twisted
    @6Twisted ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think I may have got this when I was about 12. I remember having the shits and passing blood for like 2 months and legit thinking I was going to die. It took about a year for my gut to feel mostly normal again but 18 years later I still have digestive issues.

  • @victoria6751
    @victoria6751 ปีที่แล้ว

    hey so since we got some brazilian rep in this video this might be just the right time to ask u to consider maybe making a video about a brazilian dish? i would love to see your take on our cuisine

  • @mcguffles
    @mcguffles ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As a microbiologist I was hoping you would mention that Shigella _is_ E. coli, though apparently even wikipedia doesn't know this. A great video regardless :)

  • @danlscan
    @danlscan ปีที่แล้ว

    Having once earned a BS in cell biology, I found your presentation to be succinct and cogent. Thanks!👏

  • @kkme7
    @kkme7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Monday "Why?"-vids are my favourite vids!

  • @zeduck415
    @zeduck415 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    noooo I can no longer safely eat raw flour by the cup? My life is ruined

  • @deleteemail9690
    @deleteemail9690 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember jack in the box outbreak. Lived on east coast at the time where those establishments didn't exist. But my family swore off fast food since then

  • @ashishxx
    @ashishxx ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well, i wish the good doctor carla luisa schwan a long, healthy life.

  • @dotty7789
    @dotty7789 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm actually in Brazil visiting relatives this week. I've been eating lots of fruits and eating a lot of different foods I don't have in New England. I have mild diarrhea from all the fruit. I try to wash thoroughly and I don't eat much meat anyway but I try to be careful nonetheless

  • @allanjmcpherson
    @allanjmcpherson ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a Canadian, I found it absurd when I learned that people get rare burgers in the US. Restaurants here literally will no serve a rare burger (at least on purpose) even if you ask for it. As far as we're concerned a rare burger is an under cooked burger.