Download or read book Salmonella Infections, Networks of Knowledge, and Public Health in Britain, 1880-1975 written by Anne Hardy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly history of food poisoning, telling of its discovery of food poisoning as a public health problem in the 1880s, of the discovery of pathways of infection and of the Salmonella family, and of the realisation that these organisms are deeply embedded in human and animal food chains and the subsequent importance of food hygiene.