I hope you haven’t been eating cantaloupes (the photo comes from a post at Sermo) these days and your refrigerator has none. The current Listeria outbreak has been going on for nearly one month and FDA announced on September 14 that Jensen Farm in Colorado is the source of Listeria. As of Sept. 29, there have been a total of 84 persons infected with Listeria monocytogenes in 19 states and 15 deaths have been confirmed. Listeria can cause serious meningitis or encephalitis.
Listeria monocytogenes is named after Dr. Joseph Lister, a British surgeon, who first introduced antiseptic surgery using carbolic acid in 1865, the year when Civil War ended. He published his article in Lancet in 1867. The household product Listerine has been around since 1879; it is also named after him.
I am sure Dr. Lister’s story will be told in the recently released book, Invasion of the Body: Revolutions in Surgery (the history of the surgery).
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