SUPERBUG SPREADS IN EUROPE
WHO: E. coli outbreak caused by new strain
By MARIA CHENG
NewsYahoo.com
LONDON – An entirely new super-toxic bug is causing the frightening food poisoning outbreak that has sickened at least 1,600 people and killed 18, researchers and global health officials said Thursday.
The DNA of the new E. coli strain, believed to have contaminated salad vegetables, was analyzed by Chinese and German scientists. It contains several genes that cause antibiotic resistance and is similar to a strain that causes serious diarrhea and is found in the Central African Republic, according to a statement from the Shenzhen, China-based laboratory, BGI. Those scientists were working together with the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.
“This is a unique strain that has never been isolated from patients before,” Hilde Kruse, a food safety expert at the World Health Organization, told The Associated Press. The new strain has “various characteristics that make it more virulent and toxin-producing” than the many E. coli strains people naturally carry in their intestines.
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Hey, I have a theory and it may be a long shot. This ” Superbug”, e coli) look, recently we had the Fukushima meltdown, radiation spewed. Right? Ok, well, we know that the radiation got into the milk of cows. So now the WHO is saying that the vegetables may have been fertilized with MANURE! The WHO is also saying that it is a strain that is very different, off the top of my head I believe I read that it has been around since 1990′s but suddenly has jumped into a nightmare, basically. I wonder, and again this may be a long shot, but I wonder, could the cows been exposed to radiation, which was in milk across the planet earth and noted all over the internet. So can the radiation cause things to mutate? Speed up? you know do crazy abnormal things? What if this is the beginning of something really alarming. Please share if I could be on to something, im curious. Thanks