HAMBURGERS and meatballs from Latin America could reveal the
deadly secrets of the food poisoning bacterium British
researchers, struggling to control a rising tide of infection
with the killer bacterium, are now studying research which
reveals that E. coli O157 may well have originated in South
America, says Hugh Pennington of the University of Aberdeen, who
headed the official inquiry into the outbreak in Scotland last
winter that killed 20 people. "We import Argentinian meat, so
there's plenty of scope for bacteria to come across," he says.
But even if the deadly strain emerged elsewhere, the high
prevalence of strains related to To continue reading this
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