The Food Poisoning Lurking In Your Freezer

Listeria turns your own cells against you, and can live where other types of food poisoning perish.
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The CDC on Listeria
https://www.cdc.gov/listeria/

Why Food Labels Don’t Mean What You Think
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/food-expiration-dates/

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Host
Anna Rothschild

Writer, Illustrator, Animator
Eben E. B. Bein

Spying
Music Provided by APM

Original Footage
©WGBH Educational Foundation 2016

IMAGES AND FOOTAGE

Movie S3 from Rickettsia Actin-Based Motility Occurs in Distinct Phases Mediated by Different Actin Nucleators
Courtesy Dr. Thomas Burke
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24361066

Listeria monocytogenes moving in PtK2 cells
Many thanks to Dr. Julie Theriot and her lab members
http://cmgm.stanford.edu/theriot/

Chicken meat Processed At Food Processing Factory. Poultry Production line
Pond5/mrs_veronik

Electron microcraph of a Listeria bacterium in tissue
CDC/Dr. Balasubr Swaminathan; Peggy Harris

Menschenhaar 200 fach
Wikimedia Commons/Jan Homann

Female shadow with organs
Wikimedia Commons/Mikael Häggström

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Cockroaches
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(used with permission from author)

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Male drinking slurping aaaaaaaaaaah small belch
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Running water bubbles 02
Feesound/kijjaz

Wink
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Freesound/joedeshon

Slide whistle down 01
Freesound/joedeshon

MouthPop
Freesound/HerbertBoland

Bubbles Popping
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