Article Out Loud - Listeria - When Food Bites Back

By DANA PITTS, An Article Out Loud Flashback from the Domestic Preparedness Journal, June 26, 2013. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in six Americans suffer from food poisoning each year; most of those cases are attributed to familiar pathogens like Salmonella. However, the deadliest U.S. foodborne disease outbreak in nearly a century was caused by a lesser known, but much more fatal bacteria in 2011 - Listeria monocytogenes. Narrated by MacGregor Stephenson.