CANTON, Ga. - Bert Kanist didn’t think that there would be a problem when he gave his dog Ozzie a treat one day last month, two packages of peanut butter crackers.
Within a few hours, Ozzie was very sick.
He was vomiting, Kanist said at his home in this suburb of Atlanta. He had diarrhea. His knees were wiggly.
The next day, Ozzie died. But Kanist’s other dog, Snickers a pound mutt, like Ozzie refused the crackers and was fine.
The crackers were from a brand called Austin, made by Kellogg Co. Kellogg recalled them in mid-January because they were made with peanut paste produced by Peanut Corp. of America of Lynchburg, Va., whose salmonella-contaminated items are at fault for making sick more than 500 persons and may have caused at least eight deaths.
The Austin items were just one of more than 420 items that companies across the food industry have recalled because they may be poisoned with salmonella, which most people probably think of only as a human pathogen.
But food safety professionals say pets can be equally at risk, either from eating poisoned pet food or poisoned people food. That’s why at least fourteen brands of pet treats are on the F.D.A.’s list of items that have been recalled since 01/01/09 because they were produced with products from Peanut Corp.
From Owner To Animal And Back
As hard as it might be to lose a beloved pet to salmonellosis, doctors say an infected pet can create a bigger problem: It could infect its owner, because the bacterium Salmonella spp. can be transmitted via urine, feces, or saliva.
That means you could get salmonellosis simply by allowing your dog lick you, veterinarians say.
Even if their dogs show no signs of the illness, owners should always be careful. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine said last year that they can easily isolate Salmonella spp. from healthy-looking dogs and cats, making them classic carrier animals.
Animals may suffer salmonellosis as a ‘reverse zoonosis,’ with infection transmitted from person-to-animal and subsequently back to other humans, the researchers wrote. Similarly, outbreaks of salmonella infections in large animal teaching hospitals have been linked to the introduction of bacteria from infected human students, with subsequent spread to animals and then back to other human students.
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