Health cost of foodborne illness staggering
March 8th, 2010
The term “foodborne illness” is relatively new. It was coined over the past few decades. Yet humans have been infected by cryptic-sounding pathogens like Campylobacter jejuni, Escherichia coli O157, Listeria monocytogenes, and Cyclospora cayetanensis for millennia.”The first description that we have of symptoms associated E. coli 0157 infection goes all …