BOOKISH: Philly lit events from May 10-16

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BOOKISH: Philly lit events from May 10-16

POSTED: Thursday, May 10, 2012, 2:50 PM

Filed Under: Arts Books

Wednesday, May 16

Sushi, Sex and Salmonella

Have you ever flown into another country and had to fill out those customs forms that ask you if you're carrying any produce or livestock, and you remembered the end of a bag of baby carrots you have lying somewhere at the bottom of your suitcase? As our possibility for travel increases, so too does the possibility for spreading disease. What started as a small outbreak of bird flu in a remote corner of Iowa could end up plaguing all of Paris if that Iowan gets accepted into the Sorbonne. For pathologists, an increasingly globalized world is like a petri dish overflowing with germs. Not only are humans traveling at a faster rate than ever before, but shifting cultural exchanges have popularized new foods and leisure activities among humans for whom these customs are still unfamiliar. While sushi in Japan may be prepared with the utmost attention to cleanliness, the sushi lover in landlocked Kansas will have a harder time tracking down fresh, bacteria-free raw fish. The dairy farmer singing the praises of fresh raw milk will have a hard time selling his product to chain supermarkets unless it's been thoroughly pasteurized. Tonight Temple professor Bennett Lorber will discuss how travel patterns, sexual activities, politics, and even medical progress can shift the behavior of infectious disease.

12 noon-1 p.m., $12.50, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 19 S. 22nd St., collphyphil.org.

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