What Is Listeria?
What Is Listeria?
Learn about Listeria.
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" This listeria looks like under the microscope the bacteria has some unique powers that make it even more danger it's."
" Listeria has in -- remarkable ability to travel from one cell to another in the human body without ever actually going outside enabling it to high excel from antibodies with possibly deadly consequences. Well and some people hysteria gets out of the intestines and can get into for example Green cause meningitis. Which is very severe infection."
" In the latest outbreak of listeria is blamed for the deaths of at least fifteen people nationwide. Health officials traced four strains of mysterious to this Colorado cattle farm. And Chile farms in Salinas is recalling more than ninety -- is a bag chopped Romaine lettuce. After the FDA said random testing of a sample from one bag detected listeria. Experts say the bacteria occurs naturally in our environments found in soil and water. So protect your family when the -- sleaze the farm headed to your pork. Alan Finkelstein teaches them handling safety at San Jose State University he says cooking is your only full proof option."
" It's not something that's traveling in the air that you can -- what the surface if it's in the water supply you can the earth and it comes through and it's it. It possible to -- except. Like cooking and that will kill the bacteria."
" But who wants to -- cantaloupe or lettuce washing your hands and you approaches can help minimize. But not eliminate your risks. For most people hysteria will cost of fever and stomach pain but it's those at risk who need to beat them --"
" Diligent people at highest risk there are people with suppressed immune system either ridiculous -- medication. The very young little little ladies on the elderly and pregnant women because listeria. Can kill."
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