Robert1 wrote:
> -L. wrote:
> > They will never come out and say so, but it is far more likely that the
> > virulent E. coli *is* from other humans. What makes me sick won't
> > necessarily make *you* sick if it is an endemic strain in your system.
> > The media will never report it as so, because A.) There is no way to
> > track which workers worked in which fields and shit there and B.) It
> > would be "politically incorrect" to do so, since the government (and
> > those who contribute to their re-election funds) has interest in
> > keeping cheap, foreign labor. It's much easier to blame cows.
>
> Not true with Ecoli 0157. It is pathogenic and everyone gets sick if
> they have it.

Not true. See:

Epidemiol Infect. 2004 Oct;132(5):915-9. Asymptomatic carriage of
verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 in farm workers in
Northern Italy.

* Silvestro L,
* Caputo M,
* Blancato S,
* Decastelli L,
* Fioravanti A,
* Tozzoli R,
* Morabito S,
* Caprioli A.

HTH,
-L.