WHO says E. coli strain responsible for European outbreak is new strain never detected before

[Jan Klimkowski]

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German officials had said they were confident that sprouts from the organic Gärtenhof farm in Lower Saxony were behind the spread of a particularly virulent strain of the bacterium. There were "strong and clear indications" that the farm was involved, the federal health minister, Daniel Bahr, said.

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Lower Saxony's agriculture minister, Gert Lindemann, said earlier it was possible the contaminated produce had found its way into a variety of foods but there was a "clear trail" to the farm. "It is the most convincing … source for the E coli illnesses. This is for us the most plausible cause of the illness."

After exterminating entire harvests of cucumbers, tomatoes and bean sprouts, these fools now declare we have no fucking idea what's going on:

Lower Saxony's agriculture ministry said 23 of 40 samples from the farm had now tested negative for the E coli, with 17 more tests still being done.

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The owner of the sprout farm, in the village of Steddorf, near the small town of Bienenbüttel, 40 miles south of Hamburg, had said he was baffled at being implicated, saying there were no animals or animal products on the site.

"The salad sprouts are grown only from seeds and water, and they aren't fertilised at all," Klaus Verbeck told the Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung. "There aren't any animal fertilisers used in other areas on the farm either."

What was that about GM maize earlier in this thread...... :unclesam: