it is soooo good to hear from you. the NY CSI is the only one I dont watch. And
they should have used E. coli wash down from the cattle, not botulism. the
bacteria
make botulism are obligate anaerobes and cannot live exposed to air.
I found it interesting that E. coli and other bacteria produce a filament that
does
let it adhere to the leaves of plants. "Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli
(EHEC)
strains are important food-borne pathogens that use a filamentous type III
secretion
system (fT3SS) for colonization of the gut epithelium. In this study we have
shown
that EHEC O157 and O26 strains use the fT3SS apparatus for attachment to leaves.
http://tinyurl.com/y9vkd2h
in the actual case I think it was wild pigs running thru cattle areas and then
into
planted fields carrying contaminating bacteria.
Ingrid
Somewhere between zone 5 and 6 tucked along the shore of Lake Michigan
on the council grounds of the Fox, Mascouten, Potawatomi, and Winnebago
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