UTIs or Urinary Tract Infections are known to pass from person to person, but a new study has brought to notice that retail chicken and other poultry products may cause different types of infections in consumers. The researchers said that earlier it was believed that e. coli from people and poultry were related to one another, but with this study, it has been proven that the bacteria went from poultry to people and not vice versa. Writing in the open-access journal mBio, author Dr. Lance B. Price and his colleagues explained that a widely distributed subtype, E. coli ST131 had