foodborne illness

A contaminated ham put bacteriologist Émile Pierre-Marie van Ermengem on the path to discovering the microbe that produces botulinum toxin.

Foodborne illnesses are consistently underreported. Social media may help.

Scientists are using social media to track diseases and understand how people respond to them.

Increases in oceanic populations of these bacteria—both pathogenic and not—is an effect of climate change, scientists show.