Posted by MoparNorm on Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 6:03PM :
In Reply to: You know, 70,000 cases of this strain per year posted by chriscase on Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 12:04PM :
These cases are in ADDITION to the other cases and this strain is a particulary virulent strain. Most people probably did not notice much except for intestinal discomfort or slightly worse. The press didn't pick up on this until the fatality. I'm not sure that they have narrowed the source to 4 farms yet, it may be 1 farm and 4 different packing house/brands that originated from that one farm???? I don't pretend to know the politics behind this but it may be from the global warming folks that predicted 15 deadly hurricanes this season...we've had uh....none?
MN