08-06-2011, 07:14 AM
Christer, thanks for posting this.
While I could verify the genetic information in the article (from http://www.rki.de/cln_160/nn_217400/EN/H...104_H4.pdf)
several issues come to my mind.
1. If it would be so clear and provable that this is a product from a biolab, a weapon, instead of an unintentional consequence of our way of agriculture, it could not fulfill the stated purpose. Instead the people would demand a ban of bioweapons and the head of the people responsible. Doubt and plausible denial is essential.
2. Once a person is infected, antibiotics resistance is irrelevant, because an EHEC infection should not be treated with antibiotics.
3. Colloidal silver is at least contrioversial because of its adverse health effects and the FDA has banned sellers from claiming any therapeutic or preventive value for it.
The baseline remains the question how we should react to this and similar events. Fear is rarely a good advisor, but without fear we would all be dead.
While I could verify the genetic information in the article (from http://www.rki.de/cln_160/nn_217400/EN/H...104_H4.pdf)
several issues come to my mind.
1. If it would be so clear and provable that this is a product from a biolab, a weapon, instead of an unintentional consequence of our way of agriculture, it could not fulfill the stated purpose. Instead the people would demand a ban of bioweapons and the head of the people responsible. Doubt and plausible denial is essential.
2. Once a person is infected, antibiotics resistance is irrelevant, because an EHEC infection should not be treated with antibiotics.
3. Colloidal silver is at least contrioversial because of its adverse health effects and the FDA has banned sellers from claiming any therapeutic or preventive value for it.
The baseline remains the question how we should react to this and similar events. Fear is rarely a good advisor, but without fear we would all be dead.
The most relevant literature regarding what happened since September 11, 2001 is George Orwell's "1984".