Old Foes, A New Threat DVD

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Grades 7-12.
Around 76 million cases of food-borne illness occur each year in the U.S., causing thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations. This program compares and contrasts campylobacter, salmonella, E. coli, Listeria monocytogenes, calicivirus, and Hepatitis A, which due to methods of processing, have become a renewed health threat. The program also examines some of the many opportunities for food contamination that can occur on the trip from the farmyard to the kitchen table; identifies people most vulnerable; describes symptoms and treatments; and explains how to avoid catching these illnesses. Knowledge is the first line of defense against the foe of food-borne illness. 20 minutes. Copyright 2004.