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Paul Revere
 
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Default New killer of cruising sailors

In article JRCAc.10008$cj3.3167@lakeread01, wrote:


JAXAshby wrote:

did anyone bother to read the information from the Centers for Disease

Control?
THAT stated e. coli can be a problem almost exclusively with the elderly
and/or very young children (can you say "compromised immune system?), and

even
then in the context of fresh vegetables only with lettuce.

Anyone afraid of lettuce should never untie their dock lines.


Death is not the problem but Montezuma will get his revenge. Good thing
there are few NDZs in third world countries. :-)


Anyone interested in some IN-DEPTH information about the disease producing
strain of E. coli known as "E. coli O157:H7" can learn all that is necessary
to protect yourself from:

http://people.ku.edu/~jbrown/ecoli.html