The food poisonings were scattered over 29 states and the
District of Columbia.
They were traced to cucumbers after a surveillance network,
PulseNet, linked the food poisonings.
Genetic testing confirmed they were all the same strain of Salmonella
and that the bacteria came from cucumbers.
The Delmarva area is one of the most concentrated
chicken-farming regions of North America and has often been blamed for
polluting streams and rivers and the entire shoreline basin that empties into
the Atlantic Ocean.
It’s the Centers for Disease Control that is recommending
that this “environmental reservoir . . . should be identified and eliminated.”
More information has been posted online by Dr. Doug Powell
at his barfblog internet website.
