The massacre was remembered in 1858 in a celebration organized by William Cooper Nell, an African American abolitionist who saw the death of Crispus Attucks as an opportunity to demonstrate the role of African Americans in the Revolutionary War.
Any of various rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Salmonella, especially S. enterica, which cause food poisoning, typhoid, and paratyphoid fever in humans and various infectious diseases in domestic animals. Salmonella bacteria are divided into numerous serotypes on the basis of certain antigens found in the cell wall and flagella.
While the genus Salmonella consists of two species, S. enterica and S. bongori, diversity lies in the over 2,000 serovars that comprise S. enterica. An example of a serovar is S. typhi, which causes systemic infections and typhoid fever, yet is very host specific and will only infect humans, killing an estimated 500,000 per year worldwide.