June 11, 2011'Smoking Gun' Still Missing in E. coli OutbreakTara Smith, ScienceBlogs
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![]() AP Photo Maryn McKenna has a great update today on the E. coli situation, looking at where we are as far as unanswered questions about the outbreak and the strain. It's been a messy day; more evidence seems to point to the sprout farm, but CIDRAP also notes that another contaminated cucumber was found in the compost bin of a family sickened by the bacterium (this one had the correct serotype--O104), but it's impossible to tell at this point whether the cucumber was the source of that bacterium or it ended up there from one of the sickened... TAGGED: epidemiology, Europe, outbreak, E. coli RECOMMENDED ARTICLES
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