German E. Coli Outbreak

[Fisherking]

After an exuberant assault on the sprout farm, they seem to be coming up empty.

There doesn’t seem to be any evidence that it came from there.

I understand they have some sprouts in a baggy they found some where in a fridge, they are testing those.

I don’t know what it will mean if those show up as positive and no others do.

[Banquo's Ghost]

I don't know what it will mean if those show up as positive and no others do.

Aliens, quite clearly. Those crop circles didn't infect themselves, you know.

[a completely inoffensive name]

I don't understand. The US has at least one major bacteria outbreak in its food every year (remember the deadly spinach) and everyone just sits around and goes..."oh yeah, it's all the hispanic workers that don't follow health codes."

But when it happens in Germany? Can't be migrant workers coming from Turkey or North Africa, some terrorists have been playing science.

[Papewaio]

Occam's razor

A strain of deadly E Coli that is resistant to washing ie it's more sticky. That it doesn't easily wash off and is in larger doses makes it more deadly to those with the 'incorrect' immune system. So it's Russian roulette with a .22 revolver with 2 bullets instead of 1.

Now if you are going to make a terrorist weapon are you going to:
a) Rely on something that could be washed off by more thorough washing (most sprouts get a light rinse so my assumption it is across multiple vegies and just highlighted in the sprouts).
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b) A weapon that attacks the mighty vegans. A group known to be highly energised and violent.

Might as well be fricken sharks with lasers on their head.

People want to call it a weapon because in the West we are getting more and more distanced from both our food resources and epidemics that are fatal.

It would be interesting if it turns out the biogas fermentation was the site of the creation of these bugs. It might finally get people to do a true cost of energy resources and understand that the real bogey is bogies not nuclear.

Anyhow my bet it was either by nature or accidental fermentation so to speak, and was spread by lax cleaning. I do think the Spanish deserve an apology.