Germany: Killer Cucumbers Leave 7 Dead, 1000 Hospitalized

[stevedeshazer]

(AGI) Berlin - The number of persons deceased following an infection of Escherichia coli has risen to seven this morning.
The bacteria-killer, "Escherichia coli" (EHEC), was transmitted by the dangerous coli bacterium found in a sample of cucumbers originating in Spain. The Hamburg Health Institute has identified the EHEC bacteria in three cucumbers from Spain and one from the Netherlands. In the meantime, Spanish authorities have closed two production companies near Malaga and Almeria while Dutch authorities have denied that one of the contaminated cucumbers arrived in Germany from their country. . .

http://www.agi.it/english-version/world/elenco-notizie/201105281315-cro-ren1031-germany_killer_cucumbers_leave_7_dead_1000_hospitalized

[Poll_Blind]

1. Terrible....

PB

[HopeHoops]

2. I KNEW it - Larry always struck me as evil.

[classof56]

3. Hee-hee--good one! Who's next, Bob the Tomato?

:-)

[pipi_k]

13. Well he's in one hell of a pickle now, let me tell you.... n/t

[originalpckelly]

4. Ah yeah, the shit cucumbers.

In this case, cows were probably raised on an adjacent field, the shit literally ran off the field and into the water supply for the cucumbers. It then ran up into the cucumbers and it was deposited there.

This happened with spinach before in America.

A little common sense: if you see cows next to the farm where you buy food from, it doesn't matter how many times it's washed on the outside, you're still going to get shit food.

[shraby]

6. The e-coli comes from human waste, not cow. Farmers have

put cow manure on their fields for centuries..it's a very good fertilizer. Makes stuff grow great. It's when they started thinking human waste would be okay is when we started having problems.

Human waste has always been verboten to put on crops since forever for this reason. It just isn't healthy for humans.

[SpiralHawk]

7. Ahh, that's composted cow manure -- no good farmer uses raw manure

composting is the key...

[shraby]

9. That's why it's spread in the spring and fall and tilled in...

it is then in the ground and not on the tops of the crops as they grow. Tilling it in hastens the composting of it.

[Gormy Cuss]

8. The e. coli in the spinach case in the U.S. a few years ago was traced to cow manure.

and that's important because at the time people were making the same mistake that you made, assuming that it came from bad sanitation practices in the field or processing (it was bagged fresh spinach.)
http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-10-13/news/17317271_1_dole-baby-spinach-spinach-field-spinach-outbreak

[originalpckelly]

11. Yes, and they also used to treat people who had too much blood with leeches.

And they used to dump human waste on the street.

We know more now, and raw feces from any animal are not healthy.

I mean, why do you think hamburger is ever contaminated with e. coli? It's certainly not because of a human digestive tract.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. People don't realize that vegetables can carry e. coli

There was a case in Japan a few years back where contaminated radish sprouts (kaiware--they look like four-leaf clover and are used in salads over there) got into the supply lines for school lunches. Several children died. :-(

[KamaAina]

10. What's next? Tomatoes?!

[JVS]

12. Reading that headline reminded me of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.