2008Feb12: Warming temperatures may cause a 14.5% increase in food poisoning by bacteria such as Salmonella, according to a report prepared by a panel of scientific experts commissioned by the UK Department of Health and Health Protection Agency (BBC, 2008).
Reference: BBC. 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7240463.stm
Image Description: Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph showing Salmonella typhimurium (red) invading cultured human cells. Credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:SalmonellaNIAID.jpg Image Permission: This image is a work of the National Institutes of Health, part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
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