Animals Farmed For Meat Are The No. 1 Source Of Food Poisoning B...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Fri, 09/26/2008 - 14:30

A study, based on DNA-sequence comparison of thousands of bacterial samples collected from human patients and animal carriers, found that 97 percent of campylobacteriosis cases sampled in Lancashire, UK, were caused by bacteria typically found in chicken and livestock.


 

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