One of the primary reasons many cattle harbor harmful versions of common bacteria is that in commercial feedlot environments, they are sick all the time. One of the primary reasons they are sick all the time is that they are fed high concentrate corn. Cattle stomachs have 4 digestive sections and were never meant to digest corn - which in fact they don't do well. This leads to production of digestive byproducts which are toxic to the liver over time. In order to keep the cattle alive until they are old enough for processing, they are also fed low dose antibiotics in their food. The unhealthy digestive tract does not produce the normal amounts of healthy bacteria which would keep the unhealthy versions of bacteria in check. Therefore feedlot based cattle become a production facility for the more dangerous strains of common bacteria. The odds are the new mutated strain of E.coli in this article will be traced to commercial feeding operations - whether cattle, poultry, or pork.

I think I saw this in the bible... "When man start to speaketh from thine ass, his demise shal be met by his own breath"

Don't we need to know what states the infection is in, at least?

ACHTUNG! ATTENTION PLEASE! ATTENTION S'IL VOUS PLAIT!

Hello All,

As predicted previously on this Blog, I successfully predicted that mutated germ E. Coli or the new form or newly strained germ in Germany has shown up to wreck-havoc this society!

However, Germany is a extremely advanced nation, and, for sure, it can easily overcome this momentary burden in weeks or no moe than few months as the most that I can predict again!

Good Luck to You Germany! and its wonderful highly intelligent and creative people!

Thks 2 All!

BellaVista

Just the kind of comments that led us to 911!

PS - Maybe Government Bureacrats Need to work HARDER?

Let's discuss the streak plate method! These articles are so very boring to the people who love to argue hehe

Bacteria are destroyed by heating to 165 F. In other words, COOK YOUR FOOD and you will be safe. Since Man's discovery of fire, there has been no excuse for food borne illness. Do not eat raw or undercooked food. Stewed tomatoes, batter dipped deep fried cucumbers, boiled cabbage, etc. If you must eat vegetables, cook them well.

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But ecoli isn't contageous. It's ingested and affects the person who ingested it. Reports say that this strain has passed from person to person. That doesn't make sense. Cutaneous ricin can be contageous in a sense if handled in food. And is a chemical weapon of choice of al Qaeda.

Since so little is known about the source of this outbreak, it is premature at the very least to say the risk of transmission to the US is low. If the "experts" are talking about transmission within a few weeks or months, yes. But it is inevitable that this organism migrates to the US. And the solution is not giving up raw foods. It is frequent, proper handwashing, thorough washing of all vegetables and fruits and proper food storage, as well as proper cleaning of all kitchen surfaces and utensils. Unfortunately, even regular handwashing is widely ignored, and yes, even by health professionals. Learn to protect yourself and you don't have to worry about what you eat 99% of the time.

In Germany, there are companies that consolidate fertilizer from who knows where, liquify it, and send it out in tanker trucks to spray crops. During certain times of year, the smell is unbelieveable. It seems logical that an outbreak could easily spread over the whole country. As I understand it, in the USA, much fertilizer consists of chemicals, and where manure is used, it tends to be more local. So it would seem that an outbreak like in Germany would be far less likely here.

 If my government is telling me the risk is low I know I need to start worrying.

All I can say is the US is doing this to ourselves. We are strong, smart and stable or should I say we were at one time. Now we rely on other countries (it use to be Mexico but they are far from the threat now, we better watch out for China the next US language) for everything cheap. We want everything to be cheap and disposable. So lets keep importing everything so that all that is made or grown here stops and goes out of business. Then all the cheap will stop because the USA will only import because we have nothing being made or grown in the USA. We are cutting our own ignorate throats.... Come on us as Americans need to think before you buy, we have to support our own...... I personal grow produce in Florida and I think that it is only a short time (3or4 years)and I will be forced to stop because of the free trade and because of the chemical restrictions. We have tons of restrictions and the free trade nations don't follow these same restrictions. We as consumers don't have a clue about these hidden rules but shop by price..... I understand that but then don't complain about quality or sickness from the imports..... Dam, USA WAKE UP !!!!!!!

Fox News Post: Be scared. Be very scared.

If these predictions that these are outbreaks are low are made by someone in our government I would be very worried.

The truth is that so far the scientists have no clue where this outbreak originated from only that we are seeing a new strain of bacteria. That said to imply like this man in the article that the germans would be slower than the american FDA or CDC is only laughable. The germans have far better control over their food than you got in the states ;)

how is it that msnbc.com knows e.coli is a bacteria, but the television channel runs a headline titled deadly virus outbreak? the anchor this morning actually called it a virus. perhaps a correction is in order????

unless of course e.coli has magically lost its organelles etc...