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

[Peter Lemkin]

I have taken courses in Epidemiology and we learned, discussed and did mock efforts to locate the source of a food-borne infection. Something doesn't add up....[is rotten in Denmark - or Germany.] They seem desperate to have someone and something to blame, before the tests and evidence is in. If the owner of the sprout farm is a decent person, his life is destroyed, likely forever. I'll wait until there is more in the way of standard epidemiological evidence and work-up. Even if this farm turns out to be the locus, the question remains if it happened with or without men in black cloaks in the dead of night coming with vials of laboratory made pathogens. Actually, a DNA analysis of the new strain might well answer that question!.....it is almost impossible for normal E. Coli to turn into such a pathologic strain, WITHOUT some intermediate steps and strains, that should be able to be located eventually [if it was a 'natural' occurrence'].