Myths about bacteria:

1). Organic food is more useful for health. Investigations conducted by scientists from Holland, Denmark and Austria discovered dangerous bacterium Campylobacter in the organic chicken for 100% ; ordinary ones were infected only in one third.

Besides, 72% of organic chicken are infected with parasites. Organic hot-houses are more polluted for environment, moreover they comprise pathogenic bacteria.

2). Fruits and vegetables in the supermarkets are cleaner than in the markets.

Scientists revealed that fresh fruits and vegetables in the supermarkets visibly clean have no less pathogenic bacteria than the same products from the markets and ordinary shops. 39% of the samples contained exceeding normal concentrations of the germs of the common enteric group. Bacterial pollution is caused by the water, which was used for cleaning products before shipment and in the process of transportation.

Places of localization of pathogenic bacteria in the household use

Garbage pail is the place where potentially mortal destructive bacteria replicate at cosmic speed. Staphylococci in the household garbage multiply the number of their population for about 130% per week, E.coli -about 82%, Psudomonas aeruginosa causing skin inflammation and suppuration – 71%.

Kitchen sink – there are more then 80 thousand of bacteria per 1 sq.sm on the sink surface and the inner side of the drain. Germs also occupy a water tap.

Dish-clouts and sponges are ideal habitat for multiplication of bacteria and contain 130 thousand of germs - more than on the water-closet sit.

Unfinished lunch – fish and meat products can be warmed for the second time only once. The same can be referred to the frozen products. While refreezing microbes and bacteria begin reproducing very rapidly in these products.

Cutting and chopping boards, especially the wooden cracked ones; the most possible sources of bacteria can be potato, berries, leaf vegetables and greenery.

Refrigerator – prepared meals can be “infected” with bacteria from the roe vegetable or meat; some souses and drinks due to the strong flavoring agents mistakenly seem to be fresh.

Frozen products – at low temperature bacteria are not so active and do not impact on color and the smell of the products, causing a pathogenic action inside of the organism.

Frozen meat – Salmonella, provoking food poison are capable to live under low temperature and can transfer to the other food products.

Water tubes, air conditioner – bacterium Legionella very often inhabits the system of air condition, it provokes legionellosis - legionnaires' diseases, the dangerous form of pneumonia.

Clean laundry – even after careful washing bacteria survive and begin multiplying in the moist and warm environment inside of the washing machine. Most bacteria are destroyed at the temperature of above 65 degrees of Centigrade.

Tooth brush – there are more than 100 million microbes per 1 sq.mm on the mucous membranes of the mouth cavity, the tooth brush collects them all providing favorable conditions for their reproduction.

Shower sprinkler – Staphylococcus aureus was discovered in 25% of bathrooms in the USA: on the shower sprinklers, in the corners, in the crevices between shelves, in the shelves junctions in the drainage.

Keyboard, mouse and telephone – during one year of usage the keyboard gets about 1-1,5 kg due to the food remnants and some garbage. Any technical devices can become the places of habitat of viruses of flu, staphylococci and other dangerous microorganisms.

Toilet floor – there are much more bacteria there than on the water-closet sit. Particles of excretion together with micro water drops while draining get to the floor and even to the walls of the toilet.

Footwear – hundreds of thousands of various bacteria rapidly stick to the soles of the footwear when people are outside, and indoors they easily find ways for their propagation.

Bed – warmth, moist, skin micro particles and food remnants create favorable conditions for bacteria multiplication in the bed. Microbes rapidly reproduce themselves in the well-handled bed-cloth the same way as in the spoiled food products.

“Dustcollectors” - the surfaces of high cases, carved chandelier, statuettes with little details and pits etc. are the storage for dust particles – the nutrition of bacteria; sometimes the remnants of the household chemistry can be found in the dust too.

Main bacterial infections

MRSA (methicillin-resistant S. aureus) – bacteria, resistant to the chemical modified penicillinum cause one of the most widespread nosocomial infections.

Community-acquired strains which better adapt to the environment are becoming more prevailed. Annually in Europe more than 25 thousand people die from MRSA infections, in the USA — more than 20 thousand. The treatment for MRSA for a patient costs from 3 up to 35 000 US dollars.

 

Tuberculosis, formerly consumption, the devastating diseases of the mankind within thousand years was caused by bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis known as bacillus Kochii. It is very vivacious, can be preserved in the air for hours, in the water medium — for months and can not be destroyed at once while boiling and disinfection.

The prevalence and the resistance of tuberculosis to the medical preparations is the challenge to the modern system of health care organization.

Cholera is an acute enteric infection caused by water or food products contaminated with bacteria Vibrio cholerae. This disease is still a global threat and it is one of the main indexes of the social development. Many developing countries face eruption of cholera or the threat of its occurrence.

Enteric fever is an acute infection causing ulcerous damage of lympthatic apparatus of small intestine. The etiology of the fever is bacteria Salmonella typhi, propagated with polluted water, meals and dirty hands.

Bacteria of coliform bacillus- E. coli (Escherichia coli) can be referred to the normal microflora of intestine; some types of them are capable to cause serious enteric infections with intensive toxic syndrome. Multiplying in the food products, bacteria promote collecting of toxic products of metabolism and decomposition of nutrients inside of them.

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Facts about bacteria:

1. Flu predisposes to lateral bacterial infection which can cause lethality during pandemia. The most widespread bacterial agents during flu epidemy are Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococci), Haemophilus influenzae (haemophylus influenza), streptococci of group A and Staphylococcus aureus. The chance to be infected with active mortal «super bacteria» increases with every flu infection.

2. Bacteria resistant to antibiotics are contained in the food products. In the North America and in Europe more than 50 % of produced antibiotics are used in the food industry. Such an intensive usage of these products promotes occurrence of bacteria resistant to antibiotics, which get inside of the human organism with animals' meat.

3. Pathogenic bacteria are contained in cigarettes and can provoke progression of lung diseases and respiratory infection. Fresh tobacco leaves do not comprise so many bacteria, but the process of producing fermentation creates conditions when number of the germs increases up to 1 mln.per one cigarette instead of elimination of bacteria from tobacco. And these bacteria are alive and capable to multiplication. The most dangerous ones are: Acinetobacter, Bacillus, Burkholderia, Clostridum, Klebsiella, Pseudomonas aeruginosa и Serratia. All these bacteria are discovered in more than 90% of the samples of all kinds of cigarettes. Tobacco contains also Campylobacter, Enterococcus, Proteus and Staphylococcus causing such diseases as cancer and neurological disorders.

4. Pathogenic bacteria live in the water for flowers (flower water) and can provoke progression of the lung diseases and respiratory infections. On the third day in this water one can find more than 10 types of pathogenic bacteria, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus causing serious kidney inflammation, enteric bacillus and very dangerous acinetobacteria.

The growth of antibiotics resistance of bacteria can impact the human health with water and food products.

France and England included item of expense on their budget on 2010 for the conducting of campain against «medical immorality».

World Health Organization beats the alarm: people are affected with microbes which can not be destroyed because they are multidrug resistant.

It will take at least 15 years and it'll cost one mln.US dollars to invent a new antibiotic, unknown to bacteria.

There are about 500 types of bacteria on every Russian banknote. The dirtiest ones are 10-rouble and 50-rouble banknotes.

Water enriched with silver ions destroys 650 types of pathogenic bacteria, viruses and fungi.

The international group of scientists discovered some types of bacteria from hundreds of them existing in the human alimentary tract which can be connected with the occurrence of such diseases as cancer, diabetes and obesity.

The population of Salmonella reduplicates every 20 minutes at room and lowered temperature.

Salmonella is destroyed at 65 degrees of Centigrade. This temperature is achieved in the egg yolk in 5 minutes after water boiling.