two-thirds had fluro, it was banned for all chicken production yet in 2012 they found two-thirds tested positive. gretchen: and women are getting bladder infections that can t be treated by antibiotics so what kind of chicken and should people be buying. let s go through a list. which starts with natural, why? part of the problem, it doesn t mean anything. the only thing it means minimally processed and nothing has been added but nothing how the animal was grown. they could be fed low level antibiotics and get all sorts of drugs. natural means minimally processed. guest: cage free, what does free range,. steve:, it means they have free ago says. it may mean that but in some
jenna: a new report raising concerns that women who eat chicken, which is quite a few woman in this country, may be at risk of developing some very difficult to treat infections. medical researchers say chickens raised with antibiotics may transmit a so-called super bug to humans. dr. manny al have rest, senior managing editor at foxnewshealth.com. we re talking about e.coli. there are a lot of antibiotic resistant drugs out there, e.coli being one of them. this came out of the cdc, and even abc news did a great job investigating this. basically what they found if you look at the e.coli that is found in bladder infections in many women it has the identical genome to the same e.coli found in
banned at speaking at this year s september 11th ceremony at ground zero. the president of the national memorial says he wants the event to focus on honoring the victim in a way that s free of politics . in the past, president obama, former president george w. bush have both spoken at the event. meanwhile, we ve got a warning for women this morning. eating chicken can give you some sort of a super bug that s nearly impossible to treat. listen to this. researchers say a strain of e-coli found in chickens fed antibiotics is the reason women get painful bladder infections every year. chicken. we ve had these infections since the time of the ancient greeks but it s only since the 20th century we ve had the antibiotics to treat them with. it s miraculous. we can get rid of the things now. used to be you didn t know what to do. used an ointment or took water or cranberry juice and now we ve these antibiotics but they are becoming less and less and less effective because we re using them
chickens. the argument is, that the link might be there is excessive use of antibiotics to these animals right from the very beginning creating atypical e.colies that are very drug resistant. they get into the food chain. they get into our bodies. bingo we have bladder infections very difficult to treat. jenna: so if you had the symptoms for this e.coli super bug that produced, maybe, a bladder infection, would it be the same as getting e.coli and getting physically ill? absolutely. i see a lot of patients, let s say they have a bladder infection. frequency urination and burning, whole thing. do a culture. give them ability bottom tick, come back two weeks later, still there. change the antibiotics still there. change the antibiotic, still there. because no antibiotic is going to do the damage to this is the problem. listen i got an e-mail yesterday from the national foundation of chicken,
we are finding the same or related e. coli in human infections and retail meat sources chicken. reporter: top researchers have strong evidence of a link between the disease and chicken super bug. the grocery store meat carrying the same e. coli strain as the resistant strain causing painful and long-lasting bladder infections. same dna fingerprint. a writer for the food and environment reporting net work interviewed researchers as part of a joint investigation with abc news. when they looked at the infections and they looked at bacteria in the animals and looked at bacteria on the meat they all matched. reporter: and this is no ordinary infection. i couldn t function fully for for weeks. almost a month. reporter: the superbug hangs on longer, resisting antibiotics and comes back repeatedly as it did with atlanta s dory brigs.