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🦠 #EColi update As of 25 June, a further 19 cases associated with the recent outbreak of STEC 0145 have been reported, bringing the total of 275 confirmed cases in the UK. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eMuXBV5T

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So it seems as my last poem foretold, Salad seems to be, in this story, involved, And while the idea of electrolysed water has been promoted, The evidence suggests the factories did what they ought to, To make sure the sandwiches and wraps and others, Were safe to be eaten by end consumers, So that brings us back to a James Herriot conundrum, What exactly is going on in a cow’s colon, That makes it, for E. coli, a nice breeding ground, And from that is there anything we can learn, That might help reduce the disease burden, So salad sprayed with cow poop becomes safer to eat more, Thankfully we stopped feeding cows to cows in the 1990s, That was because of the dreadful BSE, But maybe now it’s time to again look closely, At what things we put in animal feed cheaply, Because putting some bleach into a cows mouth, In the hope that it reaches all the way to their bum, Doesn’t, to me, sound like a sustainable option, ‘Cause E. coli has a very sweet tooth, It likes simple sugars to promote its growth, And anyone that’s tasted grass will know, It don’t taste very sweet, it’s like cardboard, And maybe we’ll realise one day soon, That a spoonful of sugar might help the medicine go down, But also feeds the risk of killer diarrhoea from cows.

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