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Technology Vs. E.coli Outbreaks

jcatcw writes "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found the patterns of illness in both of the recent E. coli outbreaks — packaged spinach and Taco Bell — using PulseNet, which uses a customized version of BioNumerics to conduct comparisons and analysis of samples in a SQL Server database. PulseNet holds the DNA fingerprints provided by pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). It operates at a national level and can link small, localized cases in a nationwide pattern. 'We can now see the connections you would not have seen before, which has revolutionized the world of food safety,' according to John Besser, clinical laboratory manager at the Minnesota Department of Health and a member of the Association of Public Health Laboratories."

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  1. Re:Not so revolutionary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The reason people are getting sick from E Coli is because of Mexicans. The media knows it, you all know it, everybody knows it. Mexicans in the fields crapping on the same crops they are picking. Mexicans crapping and not washing their hands (Mexicans with no sense of personal hygiene - whoever would have thought it) and spreading their E Coli to the vegetables they are handling.

    In other words, they are "doing the jobs Americans won't do" (that would be WHITE Americans...) - crapping on your food.

    Oh, the joys of 'diversity'...

    And all because the Jews know the only way they can destroy all the white countries of the world is to flood them with disease ridden, dirty third world savages...

    Hitler had the right idea...