Agricultura biológica, estrume animal e E.Coli

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Do Guardian, de hoje (realce meu):

«Health inspectors have identified the source of the infections after linking patients who fell ill with the bug to 26 restaurants and cafes known to have received produce from the farm in Lower Saxony.

Reinhard Burger, the head of the Robert Koch Institute, which is responsible for disease control and prevention in Germany, told a press conference in Berlin there was sufficient evidence to implicate the farm, even though bean sprouts there had passed tests for the lethal microbe.

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Organic farms fell under suspicion in the investigation because they do not use chemical fertilisers and put crops at greater risk of contamination from bacteria in manure. The cost to European farming could reach €500m.

The new strain of E coli causes disease by colonising the gut and producing a toxin called Shiga. Many patients experienced bloody diarrhoea and in the most serious cases the infection caused a life-threatening condition called haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS).»