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2 stories tagged "food-safety"

Infectious Disease

The Gut Lining Starves Salmonella of Iron, a Trick We Thought Only Immune Cells Knew

Salmonella sickens more than a million Americans a year. University of Vermont researchers found the cells it invades fight back by withholding the iron and manganese the bacteria need, a defense the textbooks credited mainly to immune cells.

Nutrition & Food

WHO Tripled the Foodborne Death Toll. The Food Didn't Get Deadlier.

WHO's new estimate says unsafe food kills 1.5 million people a year, more than triple its 2015 figure, even as it admits the burden has fallen. The jump is an accounting change, not an epidemic.