Almost half the meat and poultry sold in the US is contaminated by
highly dangerous bacteria, according to new research published in the
scientific journal, Clinical Infectious Diseases.

A reported 47 percent of the meat and poultry that research US
supermarket shelves is thought to contain staphylococcus aureus (Staph),
a bacteria that is not only linked to a number of human diseases, but
is also resistant to at least three classes of antibiotics.