Eating Red Meat Sets Up Target For Disease-causing Bacteria, Study Finds
ScienceDaily (Oct. 30, 2008) — 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.[MORE]