Re: WHO says E. coli strain responsible for European outbr...

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Now the question is: could it have been created and applied to the food supply? I seem to recall certain terrorist organizations having plans to develop such a thing and apply it in small amounts to the Western food supply. The objective wouldn't be to create mass casualties but to create fear from a few small outbreaks, to make the people afraid of their own food. Only a couple of minor attacks like this per year would be enough to accomplish this.

In a message dated 6/2/2011 10:56:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

Preliminary genetic sequencing suggests the strain is a mutant form of two different E. coli bacteria, with aggressive genes that could explain why the outbreak appears to be so massive and dangerous, the agency said.