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
whether president obama or governor romney is elected president. i think the republicans are going to maintain control of the house and to do so fairly easily. our current projection at the crystal ball is that democrats will pick up just about six seats. well they need 25 to take control of the house of representatives. they aren t even going to come within hailing distance of doing so. jon: larry sabato, from the university of virginia, with the crystal ball out on thursdays. larry, thank you. thank you. jenna: jon, our very own dr. manny alvarez, he has never been one to jump on the organic farm raise bandwagon. that is not his thing, all right? jon: all right. jenna: at least not until today. new data on chickens, antibiotics and your health and a super bug has the doctor changing his tune, next. so easy.
hiring. the president s solution is to take more money away from the very business folks we are counting on to create jobs that we need, presumably so he can spend it on solar companies and stimulus bills. reporter: senate democratic leader harry reid promises to vote on the president s plan before congress recesses in august. jenna: molly, thank you. jon: it should be an easy to treat medical condition but it is developing into a major problem. what does eating chicken have to do with a super bug? that is just ahead. [ male announcer ] research suggests the health of our cells plays a key role
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
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.