30 May, 2011: Death by Cucumber

[sandypossum]

Mad cow disease, foot and mouth, swine flu and bird fllu... oh how the vegetarians laughed.

Now we have death by cucumber. With 14 dead already and more than 300 seriously ill in Germany alone, and with cases in several other European countries, who's laughing now? Okay, meat eaters who also like cucumbers (like me) are not laughing, but still. Even worse:

Suspicion has fallen on organic cucumbers from Spain imported by Germany but then re-exported to other European countries, or exported directly by Spain.

link and link and also Food poisoning reminds us that bacteria do have sex‎

Fortunately, all the cucumbers in our local shops are grown in Australia, so for now we are safe.

P.S. I hope you appreciate that I gave this iotd the date "30 May" even though it is already half way through 31 May here in southern Australia, as I know it focks with the minds of some of youse in the USA when we do that.