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Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
Thus spake (Nick Maclaren)

Even excluding the fact that Chief Bullshit Advisers are paid to
prostitute their scientific reputations, the coverage leads even
many educated people to believe that Salmonella should be considered
as comparable to typhoid or even cholera. And that E. coli (generally,
not just 0157) is a disease :-(

Ummm... Typhoid and paratyphoid are caused by Salmonella species.

A good point! But not the species that are endemic in fish, eggs and
so on, which are the ones normally referred to as Salmonella. We are
well adapted to those.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.