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The Listeria Peril — And What the Hell Is Listeriosis, Anyway?
By Melanie Haiken on November 4, 2011
Chances are, you aren’t buying canteloupes these days, scared off by the latest scare in food-borne illnesses. Canteloupes from a Colorado farm were found to be contaminated with Listeria, and have now sickened hundreds of people and killed 29, the highest death toll ever from a food-borne pathogen. The problem is, this is just the [...]
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