with e coli, the food need not be the means of delivery, and could throw off the investigation for a long time as investigators focus on the obvious and past experience with raw vegetables
deliberate contamination of containers, eating implements, shopping carts or ? could work just as effectively, as e coli can go human-to-human once introduced
Might explain why 70% of the victims of this virulent new pathogen are young and middle-age women, who usually do the shopping and preparing, or why certain female restaurant patrons were infected and others not
Good points; e-coli is one of the things that you actually can get from just touching something touched by someone else whose hands were contaminated.
Another interesting thing is the place where it began. I have read that there are a lot of chemical and pharmaceutical research facilities in Northern Germany, and I was talking to somebody who wondered if perhaps it was an escaped mutant virus from one of the plants. Or if it was created by a biologically knowledgeable German jihadi...
The fact that it combines a supertoxic form with one that enhances its speedy colonization in the gut is pretty strange.