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Unusual Traits Blended in Germany E. Coli Strain
NY Times ^
| June 22, 2011
| GINA KOLATA
Posted on 06/23/2011 1:04:56 PM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
06/23/2011 1:05:03 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; Battle Axe; null and void; ...
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posted on
06/23/2011 1:06:51 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: neverdem
why do I have that nagging feeling there was intervention by scientists to get this deadly combo.
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posted on
06/23/2011 1:20:08 PM PDT
by
pacpam
(action=consequence and applies in all cases - friend of victory)
To: pacpam
And it started just after OBL was whacked.
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posted on
06/23/2011 1:25:14 PM PDT
by
Tazlo
To: neverdem
“In fact, Dr. Karch said, E.coli O157:H7 is thought to have traveled to Europe from America in 1610,”
Are they saying that the “native Americans” got together and decided to send a local disease back across the Atlantic, in retaliation for the “genocide” that “European” diseases had been intentionally unleashed to cause against “the natives” all over “the Americas”. (only “our” bio-weapons were superior to “theirs”) /sarc
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posted on
06/23/2011 1:29:14 PM PDT
by
Wuli
To: pacpam
Sounds suspiciously like bio engineering.
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posted on
06/23/2011 1:30:39 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: silverleaf
” a highly unusual combination “
///
may not be engineered, but you were certainly right,
a few weeks ago, when you said it was not ordinary,
and was worth keeping an open mind about.
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posted on
06/23/2011 1:34:00 PM PDT
by
Elendur
(the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
To: Tazlo
I had a thoght about that and wondered myself....
To: Tazlo
I had a thought about that and wondered myself....
To: neverdem
Thanks VERY much for the post (and all of your posts), neverdem. VERY interesting.
Health/life BUMP!
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posted on
06/23/2011 1:42:40 PM PDT
by
PGalt
To: pacpam
The reason you have that feeling is that you probably believe things like this can only happen when a group of mad scientist conspirators get together and DO STUFF.
Now, try this one. Germans change their underwear once a month at best. How often do you imagine they wash and clean the reusable grocery bags they tote everywhere?
I'd bet NEVER, and Fur Shur they buy only the longest lasting ones.
After a while something is going to happen in one of those bags and it's not going to be nice. Then it's going to get out somewhere ~ maybe a restaurant ~ maybe a Spring Festival down at the neighborhood Farmer's Market ~
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posted on
06/23/2011 1:44:04 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: pacpam
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posted on
06/23/2011 1:46:30 PM PDT
by
Free Vulcan
(Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
To: neverdem
A bacterium with designer genes?
To: muawiyah
>> “Germans change their underwear once a month at best.” <<
.
That comment is beneath even you.
The germans are known as a group, to be obsessed with order and cleanliness.
To: editor-surveyor
Alas public survey after public survey has revealed the reputation does not extend to the undergarments.
BTW, that is common knowledge ~ and Germans are hardly a VICTIM CLASS type people.
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posted on
06/23/2011 2:14:05 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: neverdem
Did anyone ever determine where this bug came from, and is the organic farm still closed.
To: Wuli
I never knew cattle were being transported back to Europe from the New World in 1610
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posted on
06/23/2011 2:21:31 PM PDT
by
silverleaf
(All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
To: neverdem
But the strain that caused the German outbreak does not seem to live in animals.
I think it is human-specific, Dr. Karch said. And that increases the mystery of where it goes between outbreaks.
This alone is bothersome. The spontaneity of the combination of traits, the reticence in identifying a host and targeting a source of the contamination leads to assumptions beyond my ken. (This, of course, is from the NYT reporting only.
Going to your follow up.
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posted on
06/23/2011 2:22:34 PM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul Congress!)
To: BIGLOOK
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posted on
06/23/2011 2:39:56 PM PDT
by
silverleaf
(All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
To: editor-surveyor
"The germans are known as a group, to be obsessed with order and cleanliness."
Order, yes. Known during the world wars for being tidy.
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posted on
06/23/2011 2:47:04 PM PDT
by
familyop
(Shut up, and eat your brains!)
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