Prions and beef.
Prion diseases, caused by an infectious misfolded host encoded protein – a fascinating concept indeed.
Author: foodmicrobiologyacademy
COVID-19: A likely foodborne disease.
How likely is SARS-CoV-2 to be transmitted through food? If you consider communal eating practices and contamination of ready-to-eat (RTE) food in a food service environment as foodborne disease (which fits the WHO definition of such), then transmission through food is quite likely.
Save your immune system for SARS-CoV-2!
Give yourself the best chance of avoiding COVID-19 … observe these hygienic food safety practices to save your immune system to fight of SARS-CoV-2.
Isolation of Vibrio parahaemolyticus
An introduction to isolation of the ubiquitous marine bacterium – Vibrio parahaemolyticus.
Putting COVID-19 and foodborne disease into perspective.
The current epidemic of SARS-Cov-2 sweeping the world is serious, no doubt about that. However, there are most certainly other (foodborne) diseases that are more serious – let’s put SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 into perspective.
