Salmon have no connection with Salmonella or salmonellosis. The latter is a very common form of food poisoning that can result in death and is caused by bacteria of the Salmonella genus, comprising some fifteen hundred species. The Salmonella genus was first identified by nineteenth century American pathologist and veterinarian Daniel Elmer Salmon, who died in 1914. There are often outbreaks of salmonellosis, which is usually caused by infected and insufficiently cooked beef, pork, poultry, and eggs, as well as food, drink, or equipment contaminated by the excreta of infected animals. Nearly all animals are hospitable to the rod-shaped bacteria causing the acute gastroenteritis in humans, and food poisonings caused by them are almost as common as those caused by staphylococci. Incidentally, there is a salmon disease dogs and other animals get from eating salmon infested with cysts of flukes it has nothing to do with salmonellosis. Salmonella, some experts fear, could become and Andromeda strain. It seems that generations of livestock raised for human consumption have been fed miracle drugs for so long that they have developed races of bacteria that are immune to the germ-killing properties of antibiotics. These Salmonella could be passed on to the consumer, infecting humans in epidemic proportions with a salmonellosis antibiotics would be powerless against. The theory is highly controversial, but the FDA considers it likely enough to have conducted extensive investigations over the past few years.