Red Meat Helps Spur a Food Poison Germ, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine Study

EurekAlert! -- 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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