Eating red meat sets up target for disease-causing bacteria
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 13:28
in Health & Medicine
Offering another reason why eating red meat could be bad for you, an international research team, including University of California, San Diego School of Medicine professor Ajit Varki, M.D., has uncovered the first example of a bacterium that causes food poisoning in humans when it targets a non-human molecule absorbed into the body through red meats such as lamb, pork and beef.
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