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You must have heard about "E.coli." (Full name is "E. Coli 0157:H7"). I remember first reading about it in the newspaper in HK. Some people got it from eating in a restaurant and later the HK govt. found out that the employees hadn't washed their hands after going to the bathroom. Ugh!!

An article in the 2001/8/1 Chicago Tribune reports that E.coli has become a problem esp. on the west coast. It further explains that E.coli is not a bacteria but is animal fecal matter. The govt. is trying different methods to control it. It also gave these guidelines listed below, in italac. My questions are immediately below each point.

DON'T:
- drink well water
No problems here. I drink spring water, flown out from under rocks and ground. The way nature meant it to be. Water trapped in a well, that's bad business.

- swallow swimming pool water
Not swallowing swimming pool water is kinda hard, especially if you don't know how to swim. The oxymoron is that in order to be able to swim, you must learn in a swimming pool.... which obviously would mean swallowing mouthfuls here and there. I mean, unless they're asking to specifally not drink large amounts of water, i.e., bringing a straw with you to a swimming pool. Besides, isn't that why we use chlorine?? You mean chlorine just keeps the water blue but doesn't kill germs? Uh oh.

- swimming in fresh water lake
Okay, first it was man made pools, now we can't swim in lakes? But salt-water is okay? Do you know what happens when you swallow excess amounts of salt water? Yeah, it's pretty nasty. Anyone who watched Castaway would know.

- drink fresh apple juice
Is stale apple juice better, or worse yet, from concentrate? Does that mean apple juice from concentrate diluted with pool water is doubly bad?! Stale apple juice.... isn't that cider? What if you let it go really stale, and it ferments?! Ooooh, fermented cider. Now nothing kills germs like alcohol. *hick*

- eat raw sprouts
I guess if the animals are inconsiderately pooping on the sprouts, then e.coli can be a problem, since it's really animal fecal matter.

- let children pet zoo animals or strange dogs & cats
- go to farm visits
How can a strange dog or cat be different from a known cat or dog? Does a known animal be exempt from e.coli because you're familiar with it? I guess maybe you should know where your cat/dog have been..... but do you really? I'm sure most dog/cat owners let their pets roam free around the house/backyard. So keep a constant watch over your pets people, I suggest setting up a webapge with a live webcam feed that updates continuously. People working in zoos are in constant contact with animals, and I'll warrant they occasionally pet the less ferocious ones. Are they more suspectable than we are to health hazards? I guess this also holds true with farm visits. Maybe that's why no one wants to farm anymore in Canada!

- camp out
Oh, camping out is bad, that's why we invented houses.

- cook meat (esp. pork & beef) over high heat
- eat rare steaks
Don't cook meat in high heat?? I thought heat killed germs. And if we can't eat it raw, and we can't cook on high heat, then what do we have left? Slow cooking beef..... I don't know if I want to eat beef jerky for every meal, because low heat = long cook = tough meat.

....I'm not trying to be a jerk. I'm just really curious about the seemingly random points. Too bad I'm such a sarcastic nut. Thanks for putting up with me Aunt Two. posted by losir at 5:38 PM