Thread: deadly e. coli

Originally Posted by Hanna

The view of all European papers is that it's totally political.

Curious take, considering there are corpses in the morgue and at least according to the Russian news, this is a new, unknown strain of ecoli.

True bitpicker, I just read the news!
All the more reason for Russia not to overreact about the vegetables then!

There is evidence that the actual source is a batch of spruces sprouts from a specific food plant in Lower Saxony, Germany. Warnings against fresh cucumbers, tomatoes and salad are going to be lifted. It is not known yet, whether the contamination happened there; samples of spruces sprouts from there which have been analyzed show no traces of contamination, but it might be possible that there was only one contaminated batch, and that might have been used up already. Meanwhile, the number of new infections is increasing.

Ehec-Epidemie: Entwarnung für Gurken, Tomaten und Salat - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Wissenschaft

Originally Posted by bitpicker

There is evidence that the actual source is a batch of spruces

Hmmm... people got e.coli from contaminated Christmas trees?!

(Looking at the German article... aha, "Sprossen" -- searching for "Sprossen" on Google Images -- oooh, bean sprouts!)

"Spruce" is a type of ёлка. And after checking Wikipedia I've learned that "sprouts" are ростки, but if you mean specifically "mung-bean sprouts" (the most popular and widely-sold kind) then it's ростки бобов мунг. Good to know!

Aaaah, sorry. My mistake. Indeed, sprouts.