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DNA Sequence Yields Clues to Germany's 'Super Toxic' E. coli outbreak
ScienceInsider ^ | 2 June 2011 | Martin Enserink

Posted on 06/02/2011 4:18:36 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: silverleaf

I studiously avoid doorknobs in public.
I use automatic doors whenever possible, use my foot or wait for someone to come out or go in to open the door then hold it with my elbow or foot.
If necessary, I grab the door way up high where people usually don’t touch.
Grocery stores here provide antibacterial wipes for customers to use on cart handles.

I hardly ever use money, I use credit cards.

If someone coughs near me in public, I immediately stop breathing in and leave the area.

I try to be as conscious of my surroundings as possible without drawing attention to myself.........


41 posted on 06/02/2011 6:40:20 PM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven............)
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To: silverleaf

Monsanto is all about horizontal gene transfer in Round up Ready seeds.

Bacillus thuringenesis Bt.... ring a bell anyone?


42 posted on 06/02/2011 7:38:28 PM PDT by acapesket
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To: allmendream

Leaving unanswered the big question. Natural or deliberate?


43 posted on 06/02/2011 8:31:05 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 861 of our national holiday from reality. - Obama really isn't one of us)
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To: null and void

Almost certainly natural.

If someone were to design a bug to kill - it wouldn’t be one that could be easily avoided by F#^@&# washing your vegetables.

Something spread by a cough would be much more dangerous.

Just use a little logic.

And wash your vegetables.


44 posted on 06/03/2011 3:19:10 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: dljordan

I can’t for the life of me understand why those are still in one piece.


45 posted on 06/03/2011 7:27:26 AM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
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To: allmendream

There is no confirmation, as yet, that the bug is spread by vegetables. This was the original notion, now disproved. The article notes that the origins are unknown.

It may be spreading through the water system. In which case, washing ones vegetables is bad news.

The illness is now in Great Britain, and people have been warned that it could directly transmit from one person to another.


46 posted on 06/03/2011 8:30:37 PM PDT by BlackVeil
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To: BlackVeil
There is no confirmation, as yet, that the bug is spread by vegetables. This was the original notion, now disproved.

Reread the article:

"All researchers know is that raw vegetables are the most likely carrier."

47 posted on 06/03/2011 8:34:55 PM PDT by SeeSac
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To: Husker24
Does Libya have a bioweapons program?

A good question, in the circumstances.

But Libya is most unlikely to be striking against Germany. Germany is the only EU country to keep right out of the war on Libya. They abstained from the UN vote - would not even say a word. This is because it is a French initiative, and Germany fears that France wants to grab North Africa's oil basin for itself.

I find this e-coli outbreak very surprising, and I am suspicious of the nature of the bacteria. This could be bio-ware. But by who, I don't know.

48 posted on 06/03/2011 8:39:52 PM PDT by BlackVeil
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To: SeeSac
"Most likely" does not really mean anything. There are other potential carriers, equally likely. The origin of the microbe remains a riddle; cucumbers from Spain, originally fingered as the potential source, were acquitted on Tuesday and have not been replaced by other suspects ...
49 posted on 06/03/2011 8:59:54 PM PDT by BlackVeil
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To: Bean Counter
This whole thing just raises the hair on the back of my neck...

Me too. And remember that the anthrax attacks were never solved.

50 posted on 06/03/2011 9:07:04 PM PDT by BlackVeil
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To: BlackVeil
"Most likely" does not really mean anything.

It means that it is NOT disproved as you stated ...

51 posted on 06/03/2011 9:09:24 PM PDT by SeeSac
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To: BlackVeil
And remember that the anthrax attacks were never solved.

The FBI considers them solved.

52 posted on 06/03/2011 9:11:35 PM PDT by SeeSac
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To: silverleaf

they compost it.


53 posted on 06/05/2011 4:21:08 PM PDT by the_daug
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