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国际英语新闻:Bean Sprouts Likely Source of Europe's E. coli Outbreak That Killed 22
Source:    2011-06-06   English BBS   Favorite   Officials in Germany say they believe the deadly E.coli outbreak that has killed 22 people in Germany and Sweden is linked to locally grown bean sprouts豆芽.
Lower Saxony state agriculture minister Gert Lindemann told reporters Sunday that definitive决定性的，最后的，限定的 test results will be available Monday. He recommended that people in northern Germany stop eating bean sprouts immediately.
He said a company in the Uelzen region has been shut down停工，关闭 as the likely source of the contamination.
Earlier Sunday, health authorities reported the deaths of an additional three people in Germany, bringing the death toll死亡人数 to 22. Except for one woman who died in Sweden after a visit to Germany, all of the fatalities灾祸，命运 have been within German borders.

Health authorities say about 2,000 people, most of them in Germany, have been infected.  Ten other European nations and the United States have reported 90 infected people, nearly all of whom have recently been in northern Germany.
The outbreak is the deadliest in modern history to involve E. coli, and appears to be the second- or third-largest in terms of the number of people who have become ill.   Scientists say the bacteria is a previously unknown genetic recombination遗传重组，基因重组 of two different E. coli strains.

xiaomeixin

Many food had been reported to be unsafe.I wonder what food can we eat as safe in the future?

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回复 2# xiaomeixin


    yeah, I am wondering , too. what should we eat in the future ?

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回复 3# 陈秀玲


    I don't know.

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