E.coli in cucumbers

Mass graves of fresh veg and a night sky scorched red with bonfires of cucumber? Not really a fan so not too bothered myself. Mental note to avoid for a couple of weeks though
 
meh might look to see if it says "produce of Spain" on it and grab one that isn't from there but otherwise not really.
 
No because i hate them already, that and fresh tomatoes and sweet potato, oddly i love all other veg.

Anyway i had e.coli when at school, nasty little bug, meant to be one of the worst for food poisoning, wiped me out for a good two weeks.

Noro virus was a cakewalk compared to that one.
 
I've always been puzzled how vegetables, on their own carry those types of bacteria. Meat and eggs I can understand.

I had E.coli a while back. The cramps were the worst. Lay in bed groaning like an episode of Family Guy. Put sprained ankles and wrists to shame by far.

Edit - kudos on the BBC for getting E.coli right as well. Too many news agencies get bacterial erm, etiquette wrong.
 
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E.coli live naturally in your colon and provide you all with the amino acid tryptophan via a symbiotic relationship. I'd only be worried if it was the serotype O157:H7 strain which is the actual one responsible for food poisoning.

I hate the way news companies portray subjects like this as they are so unfactual they might as well just have a fiction watermark on every damn page.
 
James J said:
E.coli live naturally in your colon and provide you all with the amino acid tryptophan via a symbiotic relationship. I'd only be worried if it was the serotype O157:H7 strain which is the actual one responsible for food poisoning.

I hate the way news companies portray subjects like this as they are so unfactual they might as well just have a fiction watermark on every damn page.
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Well 10 people in Germany have died from this batch.
 
Tefal said:
Well 10 people in Germany have died from this batch.
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It doesn't say 10 have died, it speculates "atleast 10" have died. Big difference when it comes to news reporting.

Lets have a look at an actual credible source shall we, namely the World Health Organisation, which currently says 3 people have died with 276 cases of HUS diagnosed which is the most accurate current information.

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2011_05_27/en/index.html
 
Tefal said:
Well 10 people in Germany have died from this batch.
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This means nothing. You get this sort of reporting when there are supposedly more deadly flu varieties etc.

How many people were infected? Were the deaths all elderly/infants? Is the number of deaths higher than normal for an ecoli outbreak?

Generally, when you look at the figures it turns out to be a mountain made of a molehill :mad:
 
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