Salmonella is a kind of rod-shaped bacterium that named after Daniel Salmon who discovered them in 1906.  Most of these salmonella bacterium becomes the cause of many serious illnesses in the humans as well as in animals. Food poisoning and typhoid fever are two main diseases that occur because of salmonella. Some of these bacteria live in the intestines of birds, reptiles and mammals and some of them are harmless.

The kind of salmonella that cause a health hazard usually occur by touching raw eggs, raw meat, raw shellfish and many other unpasteurized animal products like cheese and milk. Salmonella bacterium can also acquire by touching living turtles, humans and birds. As long as Salmonella is not ingested it is not reckoned as a threat and that’s why hand washing is considered quite important.

Most of the food poising occurs because of this bacterium occurs by eating polluted foods and the symptoms of the disease are vomiting, fever, diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps. Poorly cooked meat and food which is not temperature controlled often become the cause of salmonella poisoning.

This sort of poisoning takes 5 to 7 days for recovery without getting treatment, but diarrhea and vomiting can make a person dangerously dehydrated if the are severe and prolonged.

Typhoid fever is known as a salmonella strain that is quite similar to the bacterium which becomes the cause of food poisoning, but it exists in more severe form and it doesn’t resolve itself and one has to treat it with specific antibiotics.

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