Ep 114 Listeria: It put dairy on the map
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Listeria Monocytogenes - What's the Difference?
In 1924, a researcher named Everett George Dunn Murray happened to be looking in the blood of lab rabbits when he found something new. Listeria is widely distributed in the environment and it can infect a ton of different animals. And so I don't really know when or where it first emerged. But one of these things that separates this story out from some of the others is what I found to be a surprising delay between discovery and how it was commonly transmitted.
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