{"id":26820,"date":"2020-08-16T10:02:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T10:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=26820"},"modified":"2020-08-16T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T10:02:31","slug":"onions-become-a-cause-of-concern-in-the-united-states-and-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/onions-become-a-cause-of-concern-in-the-united-states-and-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Onions become a cause of concern in the United States and Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Onions have become a cause of concern in the United States and Canada. The health agencies in both countries have put out alerts asking its citizens to discard onions supplied by California-based Thomson International Inc, linking a salmonella bacteria infection with the bulb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The salmonella bacteria resides in animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it enters a human body it causes salmonellosis, an infection that attacks the intestine, and can cause diarrhoea, abdominal pain, fever, vomiting, bleeding in stool and nausea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The symptoms of the infection last anywhere between 2 and 7 days. However, bowel function could sometimes take months before returning to normalcy. In some cases, it spreads the infection from the intestine to the blood stream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The infection hits children, below the age of five, and senior citizens the worst. Salmonella can transmit to humans through contaminated water or food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onions have become a cause of concern in the United States and Canada. The health agencies in both countries have put out alerts asking its citizens to discard onions supplied by California-based Thomson International Inc, linking a salmonella bacteria infection with the bulb. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-points The salmonella bacteria resides in animals. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":26821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1248],"tags":[58],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-26820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-august-2020","tag-international-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26822,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26820\/revisions\/26822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26820"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=26820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}